Psalms 119:148 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴⁸Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

Psalms 119:148 —

Old words in this verse

prevent: — go before, come ahead of.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 63:6
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Luke 6:12
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Psalms 63:1
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalms 139:17-18
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 147-148)

David goes on here to relate how he had abounded in the duty of prayer, much to his comfort and advantage: he cried unto God, that is, offered up to him his pious and devout affections with all seriousness. Observe, I. The handmaids of his devotion. The two great exercises that attended his prayers, and were helpful to them, were, 1. Hope in God’s word, which encouraged him to continue instant in…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 148)

145-149. An intelligent devotion is led by divine promises and is directed to an increase of gracious affections, arising from a contemplation of revealed truth.