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

Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven.