Bible Verses About Meditation: General references

Let not this booke of the Law depart out of thy mouth, but meditate therin day and night, that thou mayest obserue and doe according to all that is written therein: for then shalt thou make thy way prosperous, and then shalt thou haue good successe.

But his delite is in the Lawe of the Lord, and in his Lawe doeth he meditate day and night.

Tremble, and sinne not: examine your owne heart vpon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Let the wordes of my mouth, and the meditation of mine heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

Mine heart was hote within me, and while I was musing, the fire kindeled, and I spake with my tongue, saying,

My mouth shall speake of wisdome, and the meditation of mine heart is of knowledge.

My soule shalbe satisfied, as with marowe and fatnesse, and my mouth shall praise thee with ioyfull lippes,

When I remember thee on my bedde, and when I thinke vpon thee in the night watches.

Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.

Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.

For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.

If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.

Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.

Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,

As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.

Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:

So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee.

And I sayde, This is my death: yet I remembred the yeeres of the right hand of the most High.

I remembred the workes of the Lord: certainely I remembred thy wonders of olde.

I did also meditate all thy woorkes, and did deuise of thine actes, saying,

Let my wordes be acceptable vnto him: I will reioyce in the Lord.

I haue hid thy promise in mine heart, that I might not sinne against thee.

I will meditate in thy precepts, and consider thy waies.