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Psalms 57:8
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Wake up, my heart! Wake up, O lyre and harp! I will wake the dawn with my song.
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake right early.
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake the dawn.
Wake up, my soul. Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.
Awake, my soul! Awake, O stringed instrument and harp! I will wake up at dawn!
Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early.
Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.
Awake, my glory! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!
Mi glorie, rise thou vp; sautrie and harpe, rise thou vp; Y schal rise vp eerli.
Awake, O glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
I feel wide awake! I will wake up my harp and wake up the sun.
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake right early.
You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.
My heart is steadfast, God, steadfast. I will sing and make music.
Awake, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.
My heart is stedfast, O God, my heart is stedfast; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises.
Awake vp my glory, awake psalterie and harpe; I my selfe will awake early.
Awake, my shining-greatness. Awake, harps. I will awake early in the morning.
Awake, my soul! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn.
Awake my tongue, awake viole & harpe: I wil awake early.
Awake, my harp; awake, psaltery and harp; I myself will awake early.
Wake up, my soul! Wake up, my harp and lyre! I will wake up the sun.
Awake, mine honour, Awake, harp and lyre, I will awaken the dawn;
(56-9) Arise, O my glory, arise psaltery and harp: I will arise early.
Awake, my soul! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!
Bestirre thee O my glory, bestirre thee O Lute and Harpe: I my selfe wil bestirre me right early in the morning.
Awake, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I will awake early.
Wake up, my soul!Wake up, harp and lyre!I will wake up the dawn.
Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Awake, my glory; Awake, harp and lyre. I will awake the dawn.
Wake up my glory! Wake up, harp and lyre! I will stir the morning dawn with praise.
Awake, mine honour, awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the morning dawn.
Sela. My hert is ready (o God) my hert is ready, to synge and geue prayse.
Awake, my glory! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
Awake, my glory! Awake, lute and harp! I will awaken the dawn.
Awake, my glory! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
Awake, my glory!Awake, harp and lyre!I will awaken the dawn.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Awake: Judges 5:12, Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 52:9
my glory: Psalms 16:9, Psalms 30:12, Psalms 108:1-3, Acts 2:26
I myself will awake early: Literally,"I will awaken the morning," or dawn; a highly poetical expression, which Milton and others have borrowed: - Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn.
Reciprocal: Genesis 49:6 - honour 2 Chronicles 20:28 - with psalteries Psalms 43:4 - upon Psalms 92:3 - instrument Psalms 108:2 - I myself James 3:9 - Therewith Revelation 14:2 - harpers
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Awake up, my glory,.... Meaning his soul, whom Jacob calls his honour, Genesis 49:6; it being the most honourable, glorious, and excellent part of man; is the breath of God, of his immediate production; is a spirit incorporeal and immortal; is possessed of glorious powers and faculties; had the image of God stamped upon it, which made man the glory of God, 1 Corinthians 11:7; and has the image of Christ on it in regenerated persons; and is that with which God and Christ are glorified; and is, upon all accounts, of great worth and value, even of more worth than the whole world: and this sometimes in the saints is as it were asleep, and needs awaking; not in a literal sense; for it is incapable of natural sleep, being incorporeal; but in a figurative and spiritual sense, as when grace is dormant, and not in exercise; when the soul is backward to and slothful in duty, unconcerned about divine things, and lukewarm and indifferent to them; which is occasioned by prevailing corruptions and worldly cares; and sometimes it becomes dull, and heavy, and inactive, through an over pressure by sorrows and troubles, as the disciples of Christ were found sleeping for sorrow,
Luke 22:45; which seems to have been the case of the psalmist here; he had been in great distress, his soul was bowed down, Psalms 57:6; he had hung his harp upon the willow, and could not sing one of the Lord's songs in the place and circumstances be was in; but now he calls upon his soul, and arouses all the powers and faculties of it, and stirs up himself to the work of praise, just as Deborah did, Judges 5:12; some by his glory understand his tongue, as in Psalms 16:9 compared with Acts 2:26; and so may design vocal singing here, as instrumental music in the next clause:
awake, psaltery and harp; which, by a prosopopoeia, are represented as persons; as if they were animate, sensible, and living: these had been laid aside for some time as useless; but now the psalmist determines to take them up and employ them in the service of praising God: these are fitly put together, because psalms were sung to harps; and so with the Greeks a psalm is said to be properly the sound of the harp s;
I [myself] will awake early; in the morning, when salvation and joy come; and so soon cause his voice to be heard, as in prayer, so in praise; or "I will awaken the morning": so Jarchi; be up before the sun rises, the morning appears, or day dawns: this is taking the wings of the morning, and even preventing that. The Targum is,
"I will awake to the morning prayer.''
s Scholia in Aristoph. Aves, p. 551.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Awake up, my glory - By the word “glory” here some understand the tongue; others understand the soul itself, as the glory of man. The “word” properly refers to that which is weighty, or important; then, anything valuable, splendid, magnificent. Here it seems to refer to all that David regarded as glorious and honorable in himself - his noblest powers of soul - all in him that “could” be employed in the praise of God. The occasion was one on which it was proper to call all his powers into exercise; all that was noble in him as a man. The words “awake up” are equivalent to “arouse;” a solemn appeal to put forth all the powers of the soul.
Awake, psaltery and harp - In regard to these instruments, see the notes at Isaiah 5:12. The instrument denoted by the word “psaltery” - נבל nebel - was a stringed instrument, usually with twelve strings, and played with the fingers. See the notes at Psalms 33:2. The “harp” or “lyre” - כנור kinnôr - was also a stringed instrument, usually consisting of ten strings. Josephus says that it was struck or played with a key. From 1 Samuel 16:23; 1Sa 18:10; 1 Samuel 19:9, it appears, however, that it was sometimes played with the fingers.
I myself will awake early - That is, I will awake early in the morning to praise God; I will arouse myself from slumber to do this; I will devote the first moments - the early morning - to his worship. These words do not imply that this was an evening psalm, and that he would awake on the morrow - the next day - to praise God; but they refer to what he intended should be his general habit - that he would devote the early morning (arousing himself for that purpose) to the praise of God. No time in the day is more appropriate for worship than the early morning; no object is more worthy to rouse us from our slumbers than a desire to praise God; in no way can the day be more appropriately begun than by prayer and praise; and nothing will conduce more to keep up the flame of piety - the life of religion in the soul - than the habit of devoting the early morning to the worship of God; to prayer; to meditation; to praise.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 57:8. Awake up, my glory — Instead of כבודי kebodi, "my glory," one MS., and the Syriac, have כנורי kinnori, "my harp." Dr. Kennicott reads כבורי kebori, which he supposes to be some instrument of music; and adds that the instrument used in church-music by the Ethiopians is now called כבר kaber. I think the Syriac likely to be the true reading: "Awake up, my harp; awake, psaltery and harp: I will awake early." Such repetitions are frequent in the Hebrew poets. If we read my glory, it may refer either to his tongue; or, which is more likely, to his skill in composition, and in playing on different instruments. The five last verses of this Psalm are nearly the same with the five first verses of Psalms 108:1-5. The reason of this may be, the notes or memoranda from the psalmist's diary were probably, through mistake, twice copied. The insertion at the beginning of the 108th Psalm seems to bear no relation to the rest of that ode.
Rabbi Solomon Jarchi tells us that David had a harp at his bed's head, which played of itself when the north wind blew on it; and then David arose to give praise to God. This account has been treated as a ridiculous fable by grave Christian writers. I would however hesitate, and ask one question: Does not the account itself point out an instrument then well known, similar to the comparatively lately discovered AEolian harp? Was not this the instrument hung at David's bed's head, which, when the night breeze (which probably blew at a certain time) began to act upon the cords, sent forth those dulcet, those heavenly sounds, for which the AEolian harp is remarkable? "Awake, my harp, at the due time: I will not wait for thee now, I have the strongest cause for gratitude; I will awake earlier than usual to sing the praises of my God."
