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Psalms 108:2

108:1 A Song or Psalm of David. O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

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

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

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

108:3 I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.

What does Psalms 108:2 mean?

Psalms 108:2 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include עוּר (ʻûwr), נֶבֶל (nebel), כִּנּוֹר (kinnôwr).

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Awake,עוּרʻûwr/oor/H5782to wake (literally or figuratively)
psalteryנֶבֶלnebel/neh'-bel/H5035a skin-bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form)
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harp:כִּנּוֹרkinnôwr/kin-nore'/H3658a harp
I
myself
will
awakeעוּרʻûwr/oor/H5782to wake (literally or figuratively)
early.שַׁחַרshachar/shakh'-ar/H7837dawn (literal, figurative or adverbial)

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Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 108:2.

Psalms 57:8

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

1 Chronicles 13:8

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets. singing: Heb. songs

1 Chronicles 15:16

And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

1 Chronicles 15:28

Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

1 Chronicles 16:5

Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals; with psalteries: Heb. with instruments of psalteries and harps

1 Chronicles 25:1

Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:

1 Chronicles 25:6

All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman. according: Heb. by the hands of the king

1 Kings 10:12

And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. pillars: or, rails: Heb. a prop

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What does Psalms 108:2 say?

Psalms 108:2 (King James Version) reads: "Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early."

Is Psalms 108:2 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 108:2 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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