“"I have thought upon Thy Name, O Lord, in the night-season, and have kept Thy law" (ver. 55). Night is that low estate wherein is the trouble of mortality; night is in the proud who deal exceeding wickedly; night is the fear for the ungodly who forsake the law of the Lord; night is, lastly, the house of this pilgrimag…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 119
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55I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
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53Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
54Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
— Psalms 119:55 —
56This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
57Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.