Bible on Meditation

Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

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

My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer:

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

Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;

My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he will ever be mindful of his covenant.

Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?

That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.

Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.

The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.