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Psalm 108:2

Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.

1A Song. A Psalm by David. My heart is steadfast, God. I will sing and I will make music with my soul.
2Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.
3I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations. I will sing praises to you among the peoples.
4For your loving kindness is great above the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
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Notice

The harp and lyre are summoned to wake, as David pictures praise so eager that it wakes the dawn itself.

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Where else Scripture says this

5 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 81:2Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.Both passages summon music and name the harp and lyre as instruments for the song.
Psalm 69:30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.Both passages describe a resolve to praise God through song.
Psalm 57:8Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn.Both verses address musical instruments and declare the same resolve: “I will wake up the dawn.”
Psalm 33:2Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.Both passages name the lyre and harp as instruments used in praise to God.
Judges 5:12‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’Both passages link a call to wake with the start of song.
Where this verse fits

Praise and worship. gratitude. an ordinary day.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Begin one morning by singing thanks to God

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Encouragement

David’s song begins with a steadfast heart and reaches toward the dawn; the surrounding lines name its reason: God’s great loving kindness and faithfulness.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).