Psalms 119:55

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I remember your name during the night, O LORD, and I will keep your law.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זָ֘כַ֤רְתִּי בַלַּ֣יְלָה שִׁמְךָ֣ יְהוָ֑ה וָֽ֝אֶשְׁמְרָ֗ה תּוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

zāḵartî in-the-laylāh šimḵā YHWH and-ʾešmǝrāh tôrāṯeḵā

Grammar Details

• *zāḵartî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have remembered
• *ballaylāh*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular noun - in the night
• *šimḵā*: masculine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your name
• *YHWH*: proper name - Yahweh/LORD
• *wāʾešmǝrāh*: conjunction + qal imperfect cohortative 1st person singular - and I will keep
• *tôrāṯeḵā*: feminine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your law

Word Meanings

• *zāḵartî*: I have remembered/recalled/thought of
• *ballaylāh*: in the night/during the night
• *šimḵā*: your name/reputation/character
• *ʾešmǝrāh*: I will keep/observe/obey

Referenced Verses

• Ps 42:8 : 8 By day the LORD decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the God of my life.
• Ps 63:6 : 6 whenever I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours.
• Isa 26:9 : 9 I look for you during the night, my spirit within me seeks you at dawn, for when your judgments come upon the earth, those who live in the world learn about justice.
• Acts 16:25 : 25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the rest of the prisoners were listening to them.
• Gen 32:24-28 : 24 So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him. 26 Then the man said,“Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.”“I will not let you go,” Jacob replied,“unless you bless me.” 27 The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered,“Jacob.” 28 “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
• Job 35:9-9 : 9 “People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty. 10 But no one says,‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,
• Luke 6:12 : 12 Choosing the Twelve Apostles Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God.
• John 14:21 : 21 The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.”
• John 15:10 : 10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
• Ps 77:6 : 6 I said,“During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully.” I tried to make sense of what was happening.
• Ps 119:17 : 17 ג(Gimel) Be kind to your servant! Then I will live and keep your instructions.
• Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.
• Ps 139:18 : 18 If I tried to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. Even if I finished counting them, I would still have to contend with you.