At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You, Because of Your righteous judgments.

A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You [are] my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water.

When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the [night] watches.

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

[If] I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.

"Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who faint from hunger at the head of every street."

Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.