Watches

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

• Cowardice

And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.

The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

• Lion

Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

{A Song of degrees for Solomon.} Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.