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Psalm 119:55
I have remembered your name, LORD, in the night, and I obey your law.
53Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.
54Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.
55I have remembered your name, LORD, in the night, and I obey your law.
56This is my way, that I keep your precepts. HETH
57The LORD is my portion. I promised to obey your words.
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Nighttime remembrance and obedience share one sentence here, linking thoughts of YHWH with the choices made under his law.
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Psalm 63:6when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.Both psalms describe remembering God at night, with Psalm 63 naming the bed as the place of remembrance.
Psalm 16:7I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.Both passages connect the night with attention to God: remembering his name in Psalm 119 and receiving counsel in Psalm 16.
Acts 16:25But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.Both describe attention turned toward God at night, through remembrance in the psalm and prayer and hymns in prison.
Psalm 42:8The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.Night is a time of remembrance in Psalm 119 and of song and prayer to God in Psalm 42.
Isaiah 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are on the earth, the …Both passages turn toward God in the night and speak of conduct shaped by his law or judgments.
Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the …Both turn toward the Lord at night, though Lamentations urges desperate prayer for hungry children while the psalm speaks of remembrance.
Job 35:9–10“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.The connection is slight: Job records cries for help, while the psalm addresses God in remembrance and obedience.
Psalm 139:18If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.Both speak to God across the rhythms of sleep and waking: one remembers him at night; the other wakes still with him.
John 14:21One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal …Both connect devotion with keeping commands: the psalm joins remembrance to obedience, and Jesus identifies obedience as an expression of love.
Genesis 32:24–28Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.The shared detail is the nighttime setting: Jacob wrestles until daybreak, while the psalmist remembers the LORD in the night.
John 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.Keeping God’s commands appears in both passages, joined to remembering the LORD in the psalm and remaining in love in John.
Luke 6:12In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.Both describe nighttime attention to God: the psalmist remembers the LORD’s name, and Jesus spends the night in prayer.
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Even in the night, remembrance and obedience belong together. YHWH whose name you remember is also the one whose word governs your life.
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