Psalms 119:147
I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
BSB
ASV
I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy words.
KJV
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
"I have prevented in midnight," he says, "and have cried: In Your words have I trusted" [Psalm 119:147]. If we refer this to each of the faithful, and to the literal character of the act; it oft happens that the love of God is awake in that hour of the night, and, the love of prayer strongly urging us, the time of prayer, which is wont to be after the crowing of the cock, is not awaited, but prevented. But if we understand night of the whole of this world's duration; we indeed cry unto God at midnight, and prevent the fullness of time in which He will restore us what He has promised, as is elsewhere read, "Let us prevent His presence with confession." Although if we choose to understand the unripe season of this night, before the fullness of time had come, [Galatians 4:4] that is, the ripe season when Christ should be manifested in the flesh; neither was the Church then silent, but preventing this fullness of time, in prophecy cried out, and trusted in the words of God, who was able to do what He promised, that in the seed of Abraham all nations should be blessed.
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 5:3In the morning, O LORD, You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my plea before You and wait in expectation.
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Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and slipped out to a solitary place to pray.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning— more than watchmen wait for the morning.
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Mark 1:35Early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up and slipped out to a solitary place to pray.
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In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
In the morning, O LORD, You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my plea before You and wait in expectation.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.
Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed Him.
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
