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I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
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The Priority of Early Prayer
Commentators unanimously see this verse as a call to prioritize prayer by starting the day with it, even before dawn. Scholars like Albert Barnes and Matthew Henry note that these early hours are ideal for devotion, as the mind is calm and undistracted. Beginning the day with God helps set a righteous tone for all that follows, a practice exemplified by Jesus himself (Mark 1:35).
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried - I anticipated it; I rose up to pray before the morning dawned. On the word “pre…
19th Century
Anglican
KOPH.
Prevented. —See Psalm 18:5; Psalms 79:8. The Authorised Version gives the sense, I was…
Baptist
I hoped in your word.
It is well when hope goes with prayer, when you begin to see daylight even before the sun is up. I hoped …
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16th Century
Protestant
I have prevented the twilight. The Hebrew noun נשף , nesheph, is in this place improperly translated by crepusculum, twilight…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried That is, he awoke and got up, and prayed, before the day broke, th…
Supplications with the whole heart are presented only by those who desire God's salvation and who love His commandments. Where should the child go …
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