KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 108:2–4
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Psalms 108:2
2Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
2Awake psaltery and harpe: I my selfe will awake early.
Psalms 108:3
3I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
3I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I wil sing praises vnto thee among the nations.
Psalms 108:4
4For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
4‖For thy mercy is great aboue the heauens: and thy trueth reacheth vnto the clouds.
- Or, skies.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 108:2
To cease sleeping, or to arouse from sleep or inactivity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A stringed musical instrument used in praise and song.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A stringed musical instrument sounded by the fingers.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A compound of my and self, used after I, to express emphasis, marking emphatically the distinction between the speaker and unother person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Near the beginning of a time; soon or before the usual time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Psalms 108:3
Approval, honour, or commendation expressed in words or song; also to commend, extol, or glorify.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To produce musical sounds with the voice; to celebrate, praise, or tell in song.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Expressions of approval, honour, or commendation; also commends, extols, or glorifies.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Psalms 108:4
Compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
That which is true; conformity to fact, reality, faithfulness, or God's revealed word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To extend or stretch to a place or limit; to arrive or continue as far as it; or to extend the hand toward or into something.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Visible masses of condensed vapour in the sky; also figures of covering, multitude, or obscurity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
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Open the full verse study2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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Open the full verse study2Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
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Open the full verse study8Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
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Open the full verse study22Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.
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Open the full verse study1IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
2To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
3Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
4For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
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Open the full verse study12Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study22I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
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Open the full verse study27All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
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Open the full verse study1O PRAISE the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
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Open the full verse study14¶ Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
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Open the full verse study20At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study4All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear the words of thy mouth.
5Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study10Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study5Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
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Open the full verse study4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
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Open the full verse study11For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
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Open the full verse study2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.
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Open the full verse study9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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Open the full verse study10Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
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Open the full verse study5And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
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Open the full verse study18Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
19He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
20Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
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Open the full verse study4The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
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