⁶ On my bed I remember you;
    I think of you through the watches of the night.^(A)

⁸ By day the Lord directs his love,^(A)
    at night^(B) his song^(C) is with me—
    a prayer to the God of my life.^(D)

⁵ Let his faithful people rejoice^(A) in this honor
    and sing for joy on their beds.^(B)

⁴ You kept my eyes from closing;
    I was too troubled to speak.^(A)
5 I thought about the former days,^(B)
    the years of long ago;
⁶ I remembered my songs in the night.
    My heart meditated and my spirit asked:

¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a](A) God!^(B)
    How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,^(C)
    they would outnumber the grains of sand^(D)—
    when I awake,^(E) I am still with you.

¹⁹ Arise, cry out in the night,
    as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart^(A) like water
    in the presence of the Lord.^(B)
Lift up your hands^(C) to him
    for the lives of your children,
who faint^(D) from hunger
    at every street corner.