“Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.”
Awake, O harp and lyre! I myself will awake the dawn. The instruments and the psalmist together are called to wakefulness, suggesting a predawn awakening to praise. The parallel command to 'awake the dawn' suggests that the psalmist's praise precedes and summons the sunrise itself. This verse portrays the speaker as aligned with creation's rhythms, beginning the day with praise.
Church Fathers on Psalms 108:2
1. I have not thought that the CVIIIth Psalm required an exposition; since I have already expounded it in the LVIIth Psalm, and in the LXth, of the last divisions of which this Psalm consists. For the last part of the LVIIth is the first of this, as far as the verse, “Your glory is above all the earth.” Henceforth to the end, is the last part of the LXth: as the last part of the CXXXVth is the same as that of the CXVth, from the verse, “The images of the heathen are but gold…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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