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World English Bible

Psalms 119:147

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Devotional Life;   Early Rising;   Morning Devotions;   Prayer;   Prayerfulness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Morning;   Prayer;   Scriptures, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Prevent;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hope;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ain;   Aleph;   Beth;   Joy;   Pharisees;   Prayer;   Prevent;   Psalms;   Regeneration;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Testimony;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;   Scripture;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dawn;   Prevent;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I rise early, before the sun is up; I cry out for help and put my hope in your words.
English Revised Version
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy words.
Update Bible Version
I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your words.
New Century Version
I wake up early in the morning and cry out. I hope in your word.
New English Translation
I am up before dawn crying for help. I find hope in your word.
Webster's Bible Translation
I came before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
Amplified Bible
I rise before dawn and cry [in prayer] for help; I wait for Your word.
English Standard Version
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I bifor cam in ripenesse, and Y criede; Y hopide aboue on thi wordis.
Berean Standard Bible
I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
Contemporary English Version
Even before sunrise, I pray for your help, and I put my hope in what you have said.
American Standard Version
I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy words.
Bible in Basic English
Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words.
Complete Jewish Bible
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I put my hope in your word.
Darby Translation
I anticipate the morning-dawn and I cry: I hope in thy word.
Easy-to-Read Version
I get up early in the morning to pray to you. I trust what you say.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I rose early at dawn, and cried; I hoped in Thy word.
King James Version (1611)
I preuented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
New Life Bible
I rise before the morning comes and cry for help. I have put my hope in Your Word.
New Revised Standard
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I put my hope in your words.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I preuented the morning light, and cried: for I waited on thy word.
George Lamsa Translation
I arose at the dawn of the morning, and cried; I hoped in thy word.
Good News Translation
Before sunrise I call to you for help; I place my hope in your promise.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I forestalled the twilight, and cried for help, For thy word, I waited.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-147) I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped.
Revised Standard Version
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in thy words.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I haue preuented [other] in the dawnyng of the day, and I cryed vnto thee: for I geue earnest attendaunce vnto thy wordes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I arose before the dawn, and cried: I hoped in thy words.
Christian Standard Bible®
I rise before dawn and cry out for help;I put my hope in your word.
Hebrew Names Version
I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
King James Version
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
Lexham English Bible
I rise early in the dawn and cry for help; I hope in your word.
Literal Translation
I go before the dawn of day and cry; I hope in Your Word.
Young's Literal Translation
I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Early in ye mornynge do I crie vnto the, for in thy worde is my trust.
New American Standard Bible
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I wait for Your words.
New King James Version
I rise before the dawning of the morning, And cry for help; I hope in Your word.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I rise before dawn and cry for help; I wait for Your words.
Legacy Standard Bible
I eagerly greet the dawn and cry for help;I wait for Your words.

Contextual Overview

147 I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words. 148 My eyes stay open through the night watches, That I might meditate on your word.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I prevented: That is, I anticipated, or rose before, the morning dawn; and was before hand with the light itself. Psalms 5:3, Psalms 21:3, Psalms 42:8, Psalms 88:13, Psalms 130:6, Isaiah 26:9, Mark 1:35

hoped: Psalms 119:74, Psalms 119:81, Psalms 56:4, Psalms 130:5, Hebrews 6:17-19

Reciprocal: Joshua 6:15 - about the dawning 1 Samuel 1:19 - they rose Psalms 55:17 - Evening Psalms 63:6 - General Psalms 119:49 - upon which Psalms 119:62 - midnight Proverbs 31:15 - riseth Lamentations 2:19 - cry out 1 Thessalonians 4:15 - prevent

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried,.... That is, he awoke and got up, and prayed, before the day broke, the morning looked forth, or the sun arose: he was early as well as earnest in his supplications to God; see Psalms 5:3; as Christ, his antitype, rose early in the morning, a great while before day, and went out to a solitary place, and prayed, Mark 1:35;

I hoped in thy word; which is a great encouragement to prayer, the grace of hope itself is, though a man can only put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope; and especially when it is grounded on the word of promise, that God will hear and answer his people, when they call upon him in a time of trouble: and particularly hope in Christ, the essential Word, is a great encouragement; many encouraging arguments to prayer are taken from the person, office, advocacy, and mediation of Jesus Christ, Hebrews 4:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried - I anticipated it; I rose up to pray before the morning dawned. On the word “prevent,” see the notes at 1 Thessalonians 4:15; notes at Psalms 21:3; notes at Psalms 59:10; notes at Psalms 79:8. The meaning here is, that he rose up before the dawn, to pray. Thus the Saviour did, Mark 1:35.

(a) It is proper thus to pray, for our earliest thoughts should be those of devotion; our earliest acts should be in acknowledgment of God.

(b) Such a time is eminently favorable to devotion. Calm, still, quiet; before the thoughts are engaged in the world, and before the cares of life press upon us when the thoughts are clear, and the mind tranquil, the soul is in the best state for devotion.

(c) All people, if they will, can secure this time, before the “dawning of the morning,” to pray. Compare Psalms 5:3, note; Psalms 88:13, note; see also Psalms 130:6. The word rendered “dawning of the morning,” is from a verb which means to blow; to blow gently; and is usually applied to the evening, when the breezes blow gently. It may be applied, however, as it clearly is here, also to the morning.

I hoped in thy word - I prayed because I had hope in thy word; I exercised hope in thy word then. Alone with thee in the morning, I found consolation by trusting in thy gracious promises.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:147. I prevented the dawning — קדמתי kiddamti, "I went before the dawn or twilight."


 
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