Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you; indeed, every morning it will sweep by, it will come through during the day and the night.” When this announcement is understood, it will cause nothing but terror.

Those who get up early to drink beer are as good as dead, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

The watchman replies, “Morning is coming, but then night. If you want to ask, ask; come back again.”

Lord, be merciful to us! We wait for you. Give us strength each morning! Deliver us when distress comes.

I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

The sovereign Lord has given me the capacity to be his spokesman, so that I know how to help the weary. He wakes me up every morning; he makes me alert so I can listen attentively as disciples do.

The Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!