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55I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
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When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 55-56)Here is, 1. The converse David had with the word of God; he kept it in mind, and upon every occasion he called it to mind. God’s name is the discovery he has made of himself to us in and by his word. This is his memorial unto all generations , and therefore we should always keep it in memory—remember it in the night , upon a waking bed, when we are communing with our own hearts. When others were s…
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