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Psalms 57:8

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Awake: Judges 5:12; Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 52:9

my glory: Psalms 16:9, Psalms 30:12, Psalms 108:1-3; Acts 2:26

I myself will awake early: Literally,"I will awaken the morning," or dawn; a highly poetical expression, which Milton and others have borrowed: - Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn.

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