At midnight I arose, to give thanks to You for the judgments of Your righteousness.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Edom. O God, my God, I cry to You early; my soul has thirsted for You: how often has my flesh [longed] after You, in a barren and trackless and dry land!

For I have remembered You on my bed; in the early seasons I have meditated on You.

But Your friends, O God, have been greatly honored by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.

I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with You.

KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of your watch: pour out your heart as water before the face of the Lord, lift up your hands to Him for the life of your infants, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.

Now it came to pass in those days [that] He went out to the mountain to pray, and He was spending the night in prayer to God.