Bible Verses About Meditation: General references

This scroll of the Torah shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his Torah he meditates day and night.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart shall utter understanding.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

I will remember the LORD’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.

I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.

Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the LORD.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.