English Standard Version
Psalms 119:55
55I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law.
Psalms 119:55 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.
- New International Version (NIV)In the night, Lord, I remember your name, that I may keep your law.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I remember Your name in the night, O Lord, And I keep Your law.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I reflect at night on who you are, O Lord; therefore, I obey your instructions.
Context of Psalms 119:55
53Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law. 54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning. I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law. 56This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts. 57The Lord is my portion; I promise to keep your words.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:55 word by word
זָ֘כַ֤רְתִּי בַלַּ֣יְלָה שִׁמְךָ֣ יְהוָ֑ה וָֽ֝אֶשְׁמְרָ֗ה תּוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:55
- Psalms 42:8By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 63:6when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;
- Psalms 77:6I said, "Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart." Then my spirit made a diligent search:
- Psalms 139:18If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.
- Genesis 32:24And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
- Job 35:9"Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
- Isaiah 26:9My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
- Luke 6:12In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.
- Acts 16:25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
- Psalms 119:17Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word.
- John 14:21Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him."
- John 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:55
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 55I have remembered thy name - Thou art Jehovah; and as our God thou hast made thyself known unto us. In the deepest night of our affliction this has consoled me.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 55I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night - I have thought on thee in the night, when on my bed; I have done it in the night of calamity and sorrow. See the notes at Psalm 63:6.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 49-56Verses 49-56 Those that make God's promises their portion, may with humble boldness make them their plea. He that by his Spirit works faith in us, will work for us. The word of God speaks comfort in affliction. If, through grace, it makes us holy, there is enough in it to make us easy, in all conditions. Let us be certain we have the Divine law for what we believe, and then let not scoffers prevail upon us to decline from it. God's judgments of old…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 49-56Zayin (ז) is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. The psalmist asks God to remember his word as the psalmist also remembers God’s word and his name. Remembrance expresses devotion.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 52-5652-56. The pious take comfort, when harassed and distressed by wickedness of men who forsake God's law, in remembering that the great principles of God's truth will still abide; and also God's judgments of old--that is, His past interpositions in behalf of His people are a pledge that He will again interpose to deliver them; and they become the theme of constant and delightful meditation. The more we keep the more we love the law of God.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 119
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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