¹ He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’

My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours, so that I can meditate on your word.

whenever ¹  I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours.

She watches over ¹  the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. ² 

Certainly ¹  the Lord guards the way of the godly, ²  but the way of the wicked ends in destruction. ³ 

He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap. ¹ 

The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, ¹  but he opposes the wicked. ² 

ק (Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night ¹  when the night watches start! ²  Pour out your heart ³  like water before the face of the Lord! ⁴  Lift up your hands ⁵  to him for your children’s lives; ⁶  they are fainting ⁷  at every street corner. ⁸ 

Bakbukiah and Unni, ¹  their colleagues, stood opposite them in the services.

From the place where he lives he looks carefully at all the earth’s inhabitants.

Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them. ¹ 

Look! Israel’s protector ¹  does not sleep or slumber!

The Lord is your protector; the Lord is the shade at your right hand.

The Lord protects those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.

May he not allow your foot to slip! May your protector ¹  not sleep! ² 

Now ¹  there were shepherds ²  nearby ³  living out in the field, keeping guard ⁴  over their flock at night.

Then the heifer must be burned ¹  in his sight – its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned. ² 

And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, ¹  ‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.

He rules ¹  by his power forever; he watches ²  the nations. Stubborn rebels should not exalt ³  themselves. (Selah)

פ (Pe) The Lord himself ¹  has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. They did not honor the priests; ²  they did not show favor to the elders. ³