Psalms 57:8

Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
up	ע֤וּרָה 'U.rah	H5782	to wake (literally or figuratively) · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic he
glory	כְבוֹדִ֗י khe.vo.Di	H3519	properly · noun, common both genders singular construct + pronominal suffix, 1st person masculine singular
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 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
Psalms 30:12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
Judges 5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
Psalms 108:1-3 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more com…
Acts 2:26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
Psalms 150:3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Isaiah 52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 57:7–end

How strangely is the tune altered here! David's prayers and complaints, by the lively actings of faith, are here, all of a sudden, turned into praises and thanksgivings; his sackcloth is loosed, he is girded with gladness, and his hallelujahs are as fervent as his hosannas. This should make us in love with prayer, that, sooner or later, it will be swallowed up in praise. Observe, I. How he prepares himself for the duty of praise (Psa 57:7): My heart is fixed, O God! my heart is fixed. My heart is erect, or lifted up (so some), which was bowed down, Psa 57:6. My heart is fixed, 1. With reference to God's providences; it is prepared for every event, being stayed upon God, Psa 112:7; Isa 26:3.…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 57:8

Hence--he addresses his glory, or tongue (Psa 16:9; Psa 30:12), and his psaltery, or lute, and harp. I myself . . . early--literally, "I will awaken dawn," poetically expressing his zeal and diligence.

John Gill on Psalms 57:8

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 incapabl…

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John Calvin on Psalms 57:7–end

Psalm 57:7-11 7. My heart is prepared, O God! my heart is prepared: I will sing, and give praise. 8. Awake up, my tongue: awake, psaltery and harp: I myself shall be awaked [343] at dawn of day. 9. I will praise thee, O Lord! among the peoples: I will sing unto thee among the nations. 10. For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. 11. Be thou exalted, O God! above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth. 7. My heart is prepared, O God! [344] Some read fixed, or confirmed, and the Hebrew word nkvn, nacon, bears that signification as well as the other. If we adopt it, we must understand David as saying that he had well and duly meditated upon the praise…

The Church Fathers

But the patience of good men with preparation of heart accepts the will of God: and glories in tribulations, saying that which follows: "Prepared is my heart, O God, I will sing and play" [Psalm 57:8]. What has he done to me? He has prepared a pit, my heart is prepared. He has prepared pit to deceive, shall I not prepare heart to suffer? He has prepared pit to oppress, shall I not prepare heart to endure? Therefore he shall fall into it, but I will sing and play. Hear the heart prepared in an Apostle, because he has imitated his Lord: "We glory," he says, "in tribulations: because tribulation works patience: patience probation, probation hope, but hope makes not ashamed: because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, which has been given to us." [Romans 5:3] He was in oppressions, in chains, in prisons, in stripes, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness, [2 Corinthians 11:27] in every wasting of toils and pains, and he was saying, "We glory in tribulations." Whence, but that prepared was his heart? Therefore he was singing and playing.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 57

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Dictionary and topics

Altaschith — Destroy not, the title of Ps. 57, 58, 59, and 75. It was probably the name of some song to the melody of which these psalms were to be chanted.
Harp · Used in worship — Used in worship
Psaltery · Used in religious services — Used in religious services
Testimony · RELIGIOUS, EXEMPLIFIED — RELIGIOUS, EXEMPLIFIED

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 57:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 57:7–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 57:8

John Gill on Psalms 57:8

John Calvin on Psalms 57:7–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 57:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 57:7–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 57:8

John Gill on Psalms 57:8

John Calvin on Psalms 57:7–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 57:6–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 57:7-11

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 57:8