Psalms 57:8

Awake up A common summons to action. Cp. Judges 5:12; Isaiah 51:9; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 52:1.

my glory So the soul is designated, either as the noblest part of man, or as the image of the divine glory. Cp. Psalms 7:5; Psalms 16:9; Psalms 30:12.

psaltery and harp Stringed instruments, often coupled together (Psalms 33:2; 1Sa 10:5; 2 Samuel 6:5; 1 Kings 10:12; Isaiah 5:12).

Imyself will awake early Better, as R.V. marg., I will awake the dawn. A bold and beautiful poetical figure. The dawn is often personified (Job 41:18; Psalms 139:9). Usually it is the dawn that awakes men: he will awake the dawn by his praises before daylight. Cp. Milton, L'Allegro, l. 53,

"Oft listening how the hounds and horn

Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn."

and Ovid, Metam. xi.597,

"Non vigil ales ibi cristati cantibus oris

Evocat auroram."