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2Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We may here learn how to praise God from the example of one who was master of the art. 1. We must praise God with fixedness of heart. Our heart must be employed in the duty (else we make nothing of it) and engaged to the duty (Ps. 108:1): O God! my heart is fixed , and then I will sing and give praise . Wandering straggling thoughts must be gathered in, and kept close to the business; for they mus…
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