Early Rising

And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up and went out, and departed into a desert place, and there prayed.

She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth food to her household, And their task to her maidens.

O Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch.

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? — read the full passage →

I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy words.

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; For in thee do I trust: Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.

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

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

Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.

It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; Forso he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Because of the tender mercy of our God, Whereby the dayspring from on high shall visit us,

And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

My soul waiteth for the Lord More than watchmen wait for the morning; Yea, more thanwatchmen for the morning.

And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Jehovah:

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a life-time: Weeping may tarry for the night, But joy cometh in the morning.

And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.

He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.

And very early on the first day of the week, they come to the tomb when the sun was risen.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Yet Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, Evena prayer unto the God of my life.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.

for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, to hear him.

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.

And when they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison-house to have them brought.

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand; for thou knowest not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. — read the full passage →

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night.

O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.

To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.

Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan; And he will hear my voice.

for ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

Now late on the sabbath day, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

It is of Jehovah’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. — read the full passage →

The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but Jehovah will be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

But I will sing of thy strength; Yea, I will sing aloud of thy lovingkindness in the morning: For thou hast been my high tower, And a refuge in the day of my distress.

And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.

And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

And if ye call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning in fear:

We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before Jehovah, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Jehovah remembered her;

And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.

Now on the firstdayof the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the tomb.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, yea, I will sing praises. — read the full passage →

And Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.

Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief: — read the full passage →

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law doth he meditate day and night.

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, And caused the dayspring to know its place; — read the full passage →

And there shall be night no more; and they need no light of lamp, neither light of sun; for the Lord God shall give them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Now when he was risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

When thou walkest, it shall lead thee; When thou sleepest, it shall watch over thee; And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one came not near the other all the night.

And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):

And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof. — read the full passage →

And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,

and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

And when he was gone up, and had broken the bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

Now on the morrow, as they were on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour:

After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and he manifestedhimselfon this wise. — read the full passage →

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the firstdayof the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.

And as they spake these things, he himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

And it came to pass in these days, that he went out into the mountain to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God. — read the full passage →

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

And now, because ye have done all these works, saith Jehovah, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not:

O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

And there shall be no curse any more: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein: and his servants shall serve him; — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that journeyed with me.

He saw in a vision openly, as it were about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, Cornelius.

For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; seeing it is but the third hour of the day;

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. And on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.