Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.
Parallel translations
- KJV Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
- BSB Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
- NKJV Awake, my glory! Awake, lute and harp! I will awaken the dawn.
- NASB Awake, my glory! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
- NLT Wake up, my heart! Wake up, O lyre and harp! I will wake the dawn with my song.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 16:9Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.
- Ps 30:12To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
- Ps 108:1–3A Song. A Psalm by David. My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.
- Judg 5:12‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’
- Isa 52:1Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
- Acts 2:26Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;
- Isa 52:9Break out into joy, sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.
- Ps 150:3Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!
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