Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake right early.
Awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the dawn.
Awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Voices2
"Arise, O psaltery and harp." O psaltery, O harp, you were made and created to make melody to God: arise and make melody, why do you lie idle? O monk, you who stand upright in body, why does your soul lie idle, and you do not make melody to the Lord? "Cursed is the man who does the work of God negligently." If you are a psaltery, if you are a harp, why are you deaf, and do not glorify God? "I will arise at daybreak."
Jerome· Homily 34, on Psalm 107, 420patristic
. Ver. 2. Awake, psaltery and harp. As if he could not be content with voice alone, but must use the well tuned strings, and communicate to them something of his own liveliness. Strings are wonderful things when some men play upon them, they seem to become sympathetic and incorporated with the minstrel as if his very soul were imparted to them and thrilled through them.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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 57:8Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
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Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.
that my heart may sing Your praises and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks forever.
‘Awake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, O Barak, and take hold of your captives, O son of Abinoam!’
Through
Psalms 69:30I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.
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The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.
You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.
Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
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Psalms 33:2Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.
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Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
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Psalms 103:22Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!
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Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
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I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.
Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!
It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,
‘Awake, awake, O Deborah! Awake, awake, sing a song! Arise, O Barak, and take hold of your captives, O son of Abinoam!’
I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.
