Psalm 119:147 {118:147}
Good News Translation
Before sunrise I call to you for help; I place my hope in your promise.

New Revised Standard Version
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I put my hope in your words.

Contemporary English Version
Even before sunrise, I pray for your help, and I put my hope in what you have said.

New American Bible
I rise before dawn and cry out; I put my hope in your words.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped.

I prevented.

Psalm 5:3 For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.

Psalm 21:3 For thou hast prevented him with blessings of sweetness: thou hast set on his head a crown of precious stones.

Psalm 42:8 In the daytime the Lord hath commanded his mercy; and a canticle to him in the night. With me is prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 88:13 But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.

Psalm 130:6 From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.

Isaiah 26:9 My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

Mark 1:35 And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed.

hoped

Psalm 119:74,81 They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad : because I have greatly hoped in thy words. . . .

Psalm 56:4 In God I will praise my words, in God I have put my trust: I will not fear what flesh can do against me.

Psalm 130:5 my soul hath hoped in the Lord.

Hebrews 6:17-19 Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath: . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
146I cried unto thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments. 147I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped.148My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words.…
Cross References
Psalm 5:3
For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.

Psalm 57:8
Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.

Psalm 88:13
But I, O Lord, have cried to thee: and in the morning my prayer shall prevent thee.

Psalm 108:2
Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early.

Psalm 130:6
From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.

Isaiah 50:4
The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.

Psalm 119:146
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