Psalm 119:55
◄  Psalm 119:55  ►
New International Version (©2011)
In the night, LORD, I remember your name, that I may keep your law.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I reflect at night on who you are, O LORD; therefore, I obey your instructions.

English Standard Version (©2001)
I remember your name in the night, O LORD, and keep your law.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
O LORD, I remember Your name in the night, And keep Your law.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Yahweh, I remember Your name in the night, and I obey Your instruction.

International Standard Version (©2012)
In the night I remember your name, LORD, and keep your instruction.

NET Bible (©2006)
I remember your name during the night, O LORD, and I will keep your law.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
I have remembered your Name in the night, Lord Jehovah, and I have kept your Law

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
At night I remember your name, O LORD, and I follow your teachings.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law.

American King James Version
I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law.

American Standard Version
I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night, And have observed thy law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law.

Darby Bible Translation
I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night, and have kept thy law.

English Revised Version
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have observed thy law.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

World English Bible
I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.

Young's Literal Translation
I have remembered in the night Thy name, O Jehovah, And I do keep Thy law.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

119:49-56 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 comfort and encourage us, for he is still the same. Sin is horrible in the eyes of all that are sanctified. Ere long the believer will be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. In the mean time, the statutes of the Lord supply subjects for grateful praise. In the season of affliction, and in the silent hours of the night, he remembers the name of the Lord, and is stirred up to keep the law. All who have made religion the first thing, will own that they have been unspeakable gainers by it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 55. - I have remembered thy Name, O Lord, in the night (comp. Psalm 63:6; Psalm 149:5; and Job 35:10). And have kept thy Law. The night is the time when wicked men do their most wicked deeds (Job 24:14-16). I keep thy Law both night and day.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night,.... In the night of distress and affliction, as Jarchi; or rather literally, in the night season, when on his bed and awake: while others were asleep, he revolved in his mind the greatness of the divine Being; the perfections of his nature; his wonderful works of creation, providence, and grace; his word and ordinances, by which he was made known unto the sons of men; and these he called to mind and meditated upon in the night watches, to encourage his faith and hope in the Lord, and draw out his love and affection to him;

and have kept thy law: though imperfectly, yet spiritually, sincerely, heartily, and from a principle of love and gratitude, and with a view to the glory of God, and without mercenary and sinister ends.

Wesley's Notes on the Bible

119:55 Thy name - Thy holy nature and attributes, thy blessed word, and thy wonderful works. In the night - When darkness causes fear in others, I took pleasure in remembering thee; and when others gave themselves up to sleep, my thoughts and affections were working towards thee.

Psalm 119:55 Parallel Commentaries
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Thy Word
…54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. 55I have remembered your name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept your law. 56This I had, because I kept your precepts. …

Acts 16:25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
Psalm 42:8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 63:6 On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.
Psalm 92:2 proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,
Psalm 119:62 At midnight I rise to give you thanks for your righteous laws.
Psalm 119:145 I call with all my heart; answer me, LORD, and I will obey your decrees.
Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them"--
Isaiah 26:9 My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.