Awaken The Dawn

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C HAPTER 1: A WAKEN THE D AWN 1. Psalms 57:8; 108:1 The Kings James Version says: “I myself will awake early.” It does seem more accurate to use awake or awaken as with the NAS, NIV, RSV, NKJ, Rotherham , and the Interlinear Bible. 2. C.F. Keil and F. Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, reprinted 1978), vol. V, p. 178. 5. Charles H. Spurgeon comments on this verse that “The word ‘early’ has not only the sense of early in the morning, but that of eagerness, immediateness.” He also says, “When the bed is the softest we are most tempted to rise at lazy hours; but when comfort is gone, and the couch is hard, if we rise the earlier to seek the Lord, we have much for which to thank the wilderness.” —From The Treasury of David (Byron Center, Michigan.: Associated Publishers & Authors, 1970),vol. l, p.133. 3. Psalm 57:9. 4. Mark 1:35.

6. Psalm 63:1, King James Version. 7. Malachi 4:2, King James Version. 8. Isaiah 56:7; Mark 11:17. 9. Psalm 118:24.

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