Psalm 119:148 {118:148}
Good News Translation
All night long I lie awake, to meditate on your instructions.

New Revised Standard Version
My eyes are awake before each watch of the night, that I may meditate on your promise.

Contemporary English Version
I lie awake at night, thinking of your promises.

New American Bible
My eyes greet the night watches as I meditate on your promise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words.

eyes

Psalm 119:62 I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification.

Psalm 63:1,6 A psalm of David while he was in the desert of Edom. [2] O God, my God, to thee do I watch at break of day. For thee my soul hath thirsted; for thee my flesh, O how many ways! . . .

Psalm 139:17,18 But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened. . . .

Lamentations 2:19 Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart like water, before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.

Luke 6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray: and he passed the whole night in the prayer of God.

the night watches.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
147I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped. 148My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words.149Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: and quicken me according to thy judgment.…
Cross References
Psalm 63:6
If I have remembered thee upon my bed, I will meditate on thee in the morning:

Psalm 119:15
I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.

Psalm 119:147
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