I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped.
Awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the dawn.
And Thou takest not utterly away From my mouth the word of truth, Because for Thy judgment I have hoped.
Those fearing Thee see me and rejoice, Because for Thy word I have hoped.
[Kaph.] Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.
For Thou puttest before him blessings of goodness, Thou settest on his head a crown of fine gold.
By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song [is] with me, A prayer to the God of my life.
Jehovah, [at] morning Thou hearest my voice, [At] morning I set in array for Thee, And I look out.
In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, I fear not what flesh doth to me.
Awake, mine honour, awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the morning dawn.
And I, unto Thee, O Jehovah, I have cried, And in the morning doth my prayer come before Thee.
My prayer cometh in before Thee, Incline Thine ear to my loud cry,
[With] my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, [with] my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments [are] on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.
And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;