Psalms 108:2

Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Awake	ע֭וּרָֽה 'U.rah	H5782	to wake (literally or figuratively) · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he
psaltery	הַנֵּ֥בֶל ha.Ne.vel	H5035	a skin-bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
harp	וְכִנּ֗וֹר ve.khi.Nor	H3658	a harp · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
awake	אָעִ֥ירָה 'a.'I.rah	H5782	to wake (literally or figuratively) · verb, hiphil infinitive construct, 1st person common singular
early	שָּֽׁחַר Sha.char	H7837	dawn (literal · noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Psalms 33:2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
Psalms 57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Psalms 92:1-4 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
Psalms 103:22 Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
Judges 5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 108:1-5

We may here learn how to praise God from the example of one who was master of the art. 1. We must praise God with fixedness of heart. Our heart must be employed in the duty (else we make nothing of it) and engaged to the duty (Psa 108:1): O God! my heart is fixed, and then I will sing and give praise. Wandering straggling thoughts must be gathered in, and kept close to the business; for they must be told that here is work enough for them all. 2. We must praise God with freeness of expression: I will praise him with my glory, that is, with my tongue. Our tongue is our glory, and never more so than when it is employed in praising God. When the heart is inditing this good matter our tongue must…

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John Gill on Psalms 108:1

O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise,.... From hence to Psalm 108:6 the words are taken out of Psalm 57:7, which see. Even with my glory; my tongue; in Psalm 57:8, it is read, "awake up my glory". See Gill on Psalm 57:7,

John Calvin on Psalms 108:1–end

Psalm 108:1-13 A Song or Psalm of David. 1. My heart is prepared, O God! my heart is prepared; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. 2. Awake, psaltery and harp: I will arise at break of day. 3. I will praise thee, O Jehovah! among the people; and sing unto thee among the nations: 4. Because thy goodness is great above the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. 5. Be thou, O God! exalted above the heavens; and thy glory above all the earth: 6. That thy chosen may be set free, save me by thy right hand, and hear me. 7. God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and measure the valley of Succoth. 8. Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the stre…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 108:1-5

This first half is taken from Ps. 57:8-12. The repetition of confident is my heart in Psa 57:1-11 is here omitted; and in place of it the "my glory" of the exclamation, awake my glory, is taken up to "I will sing and will harp" as a more minute definition of the subject (vid., on Psa 3:5): He will do it, yea,his soul with all its godlike powers shall do it. Jahve in Psa 108:4 is transformed out of the Adonaj; and Waw copul. is inserted both before Psa 108:4 and Psa 108:6, contrary to Psa 57:1-11. מעל, Psa 108:5 (as in Est 3:1), would be a pleasing change for עד if Psa 108:5 followed Psa 108:5 and the definition of magnitude did not retrograde instead of heightening. Moreover Psa 36:6; Jer 51…

The Church Fathers

"Arise, O psaltery and harp." The Lord speaks to his own body: O psaltery and harp, you who descended into hell and lay there, arise and praise the Lord. And you see what he says. It is not he himself, who moves the harp and psaltery, that praises; but the harp and psaltery themselves, they themselves bless the Father. For he is God, and is blessed and praised by others; but his body, and the man whom he took upon himself, this itself praises the Lord. And so that you may know that the prophet speaks in the person of the Lord, and that I do not say this of myself, see what follows.
— Jerome, Homily 34, on Psalm 107

"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." God cannot be blessed and praised in the darkness, but he is blessed in the light. I say a wondrous thing: even if we rise in the night, we bless God in the light. For a Christian it is never night: for a Christian the sun of righteousness always rises.
— Jerome, Homily 34, on Psalm 107

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Dictionary and topics

Harp · Used in worship — Used in worship
Psaltery · Used in religious services — Used in religious services

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 108:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 108:1-5

John Gill on Psalms 108:1

John Calvin on Psalms 108:1–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 108:1-5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 108:2

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 108:1-5

John Gill on Psalms 108:1

John Calvin on Psalms 108:1–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 108:1-5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 108:1–end

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 108:2