Early Rising

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? — read the full passage →

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, 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.” Job did so continually.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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

Moses wrote all Yahweh’s words, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.

He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.

Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

On the next day, the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

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 and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

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

When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who 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 your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.

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

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail. — read the full passage →

The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory.

That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

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 army which was going out to the fight shouted for the battle.

Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:

I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises. — read the full passage →

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

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 on its top.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

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

But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place; — read the full passage →

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will 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 to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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

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 you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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 didn’t come near the other all the night.

Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple. — read the full passage →

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

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

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

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

When he had gone up, and had broken bread, and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way. — read the full passage →

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God. — read the full passage →

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 →

Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer:

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

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

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him. — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.

At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.

They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.