<p class="poetry">Awake, O stringed instrument and harp!p> <p class="poetry">I will wake up at dawn!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">If I were to fly away<n id="1" /> on the wings of the dawn,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and settle down on the other side<n id="3" /> of the sea,p>

<p class="poetry">Have you ever in your life<n id="1" /> commanded the morning,p> <p class="poetry">or made the dawn know<n id="2" /> its place,p>

<p class="poetry">Its snorting throws out flashes of light;p> <p class="poetry">its eyes are like the red glow<n id="1" /> of dawn.p>

<p class="poetry">Awake, my soul!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Awake, O stringed instrument and harp!p> <p class="poetry">I will wake up at dawn!<n id="2" />p>

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man<n id="1" /> wrestled<n id="2" /> with him until daybreak.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then the man<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.&#8221;<n id="2" /> &#8220;I will not let you go,&#8221; Jacob replied,<n id="3" /> &#8220;unless you bless me.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">So we worked on,<n id="1" /> with half<n id="2" /> holding spears, from dawn till dusk.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Let its morning stars<n id="1" /> be darkened;p> <p class="poetry">let it wait<n id="2" /> for daylight but find none,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">nor let it see the first rays<n id="4" /> of dawn,p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Who<n id="1" /> is this who appears<n id="2" /> like the dawn?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Beautiful as the moon,<n id="4" /> bright<n id="5" /> as the sun,p> <p class="poetry">awe-inspiring<n id="6" /> as the stars in procession?&#8221;<n id="7" />p>

Then you must recall the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen.<n id="1" /> Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Look how you have fallen from the sky,p> <p class="poetry">O shining one, son of the dawn!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You have been cut down to the ground,p> <p class="poetry">O conqueror<n id="2" /> of the nations!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So God sent<n id="1" /> a worm at dawn the next day, and it attacked the little plant so that it dried up.

<p class="bodytext">On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn<n id="1" /> and marched around the city as before &#8211; only this time they marched around it seven times.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; according to the tune &#8220;Morning Doe;&#8221;<n id="2" /> a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Disaster will overtake you;p> <p class="poetry">you will not know how to charm it away.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Destruction will fall on you;p> <p class="poetry">you will not be able to appease it.p> <p class="poetry">Calamity will strike you suddenly,p> <p class="poetry">before you recognize it.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then your light will shine like the sunrise;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your restoration will quickly arrive;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">your godly behavior<n id="3" /> will go before you,p> <p class="poetry">and the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s splendor will be your rear guard.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">So let us acknowledge him!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let us seek<n id="2" /> to acknowledge<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn,p> <p class="poetry">as certainly as the winter rain comes,p> <p class="poetry">as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">So will it happen to you, O Bethel,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">because of your great wickedness!p> <p class="poetry">When that day dawns,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the king of Israel will be destroyed.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">At dawn<n id="1" /> the angels hurried Lot along, saying, &#8220;Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here,<n id="2" /> or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!&#8221;<n id="3" />