⁴ You hold my eyelids open;
    I am so ^(A)troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵ I consider ^(B)the days of old,
    the years long ago.
⁶ I said,^[a] “Let me remember my ^(C)song in the night;
    let me ^(D)meditate in my heart.”
    Then my spirit made a diligent search:

¹⁷ How precious to me are your ^(A)thoughts, O God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
^18 (B)If I would count them, they are more than ^(C)the sand.
    I awake, and I am still with you.

¹⁹ “Arise, ^(A)cry out in the night,
    at the beginning of the night watches!
^(B)Pour out your heart like water
    before the presence of the Lord!
^(C)Lift your hands to him
    for the lives of your children,
^(D)who faint for hunger
    at the head of every street.”