Psalms 119:164
Seven times a day I praise You for Your righteous judgments.
BSB
ASV
Seven times a day do I praise thee, Because of thy righteous ordinances.
KJV
Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
BARLAAM AND JOSEPH 20:175-76 (749)
Obtain the same thing for yourself and strive to advance toward it; for it is able to raise you from earth to heaven. You will not advance in it without preparation or [solely] by chance. First cleanse your soul of every passion and wipe it as clean of every evil as a newly cleansed mirror. Remove far from you every recollection of wrong and anger, which most of all prevents our daily prayers from reaching God. Also remove from your heart the offenses of everyone who has ever sinned against you.
Frequent prayer also commends us to God. For if the prophet says, "Seven times a day have I praised you," though he was busy with the affairs of a kingdom, what ought we to do, who read, "Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation"? Certainly our customary prayers ought to be said with giving of thanks, when we rise from sleep, when we go forth, when we prepare to receive food, after receiving it and at the hour of incense, when at last we are going to rest.
Instead of fearing his persecutors, he fears God's Word alone (Lu 12:4, 5). The Jews inscribe in the first page of the great Bible (Ge 28:17), "How dreadful is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 55:17Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.
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Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
Pray without ceasing.
May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His…
One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
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Revelation 19:2For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her…
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Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Psalms 119:62At midnight I rise to give You thanks for Your righteous judgments.
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About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
