King James Version
Psalms 119:62 in the King James Version says “At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 119 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.”
Psalms 119:62 · KJV
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. bands: or, companies
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I will rise”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“to give thanks”
H3034physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the ha
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“judgments”
H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind
“unto thee because of thy righteous”
H6664the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
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