Psalms 63 · Verse 6

Psalms 63:6

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Psalms 63:6, King James Version

Psalms 63:6 in other translations

BSBWhen I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
WEBwhen I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
ASVWhen I remember thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night-watches.
YLTIf I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches--I meditate on Thee.
DARBYWhen I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:
BBEWhen the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.
WebsterWhen I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

What does Psalms 63:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 63:5-8

5-8. Full spiritual blessings satisfy his desires, and acts of praise fill his thoughts and time.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 When I remember thee upon my bed - I will lie down in thy fear and love; that I may sleep soundly under thy protection, and awake with a sense of thy presence and approbation; and when I awake in the night watches, or be awakened by them, I will spend the waking moments in meditation upon thee.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 63:3-6

Even in affliction we need not want matter for praise. When this is the regular frame of a believer's mind, he values the loving-kindness of God more than life. God's loving-kindness is our spiritual life, and that is better than temporal life. We must praise God with joyful lips; we must address ourselves to the duties of religion with cheerfulness, and speak forth the praises of God from a principle of holy joy…

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Psalms 63:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִם\־'im-ifH518
זְכַרְתִּ֥יךָze.khar.Ti.khaI have remembered youH2142
עַל\־'al-onH5921
יְצוּעָ֑יye.tzu.'Aibeds myH3326
בְּ֝אַשְׁמֻר֗וֹתbe.'ash.mu.Rotin [the] night-watchesH821
אֶהְגֶּה\־'eh.geh-I meditateH1897
בָּֽךְ\׃Bakhon you

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 63:6

  • Psalms 42:8

    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.

  • Psalms 119:147-148

    I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

  • Psalms 149:5

    Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

  • Psalms 119:55

    I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.

  • Psalms 139:17-18

    How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

  • 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 77:4-6

    Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

  • Song of Solomon 5:2

    I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

  • Song of Solomon 3:1-2

    By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
42:8; 77:4-6; 119:55,147,148; 139:17,18; 149:5; So 3:1,2; 5:2
La 2:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 63:5

    My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

  • Psalms 63:6

    When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

  • Psalms 63:7

    Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

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Psalms 63:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Cuando me acordaré de ti en mi lecho, cuando meditaré de ti en las velas de la noche.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Mon âme est rassasiée comme de moelle et de graisse, et ma bouche te louera avec des lèvres qui chantent de joie.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wenn ich deiner gedenke auf meinem Lager, über dich sinne in den Nachtwachen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Subito sagittabunt eum, et non timebunt; firmaverunt sibi sermonem nequam. Narraverunt ut absconderent laqueos; dixerunt: Quis videbit eos?