By day the Lord will command His mercy, and manifest [it] by night; with me [is] prayer to the God of my life.

All my enemies set a watch [against me;] I was troubled, and spoke not.

And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, [saying],

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

I arose before the dawn, and cried; I hoped in Your words.

My eyes prevented the dawn, that I might meditate on Your oracles.

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.

The saints shall rejoice in glory; and shall exalt on their beds.

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he hearkened not to me.

I will rise now, and go about in the city, in the market places, and in the streets, and I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, [saying], Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

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.