Early Rising

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

She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

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

I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

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 early.

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

Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth 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 cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

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

And the Lord 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 the Lord, 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 early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

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

Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited 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 they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

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

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

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a 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 the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the 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 in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

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

O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my 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.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children 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, for to hear him.

Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, 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 to have them brought.

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

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about 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 condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. — read the full passage →

The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

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

O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

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

In the end of the sabbath, 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 the Lord’s mercies 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 the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

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 trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and 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 the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

I 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 the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her.

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

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

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

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. — read the full passage →

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

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, 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 give thee light.

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up 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 through Christ which strengtheneth me.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

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

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; — read the full passage →

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

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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

Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

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

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

When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep 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 the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

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

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

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

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

When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

On the morrow, as they went 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 shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself. — read the full passage →

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

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

And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and 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, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

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

O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

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

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

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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

He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto 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 rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.