Dawn

Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.

They got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul got ready, and both he and Samuel went outside together.

And Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until dawn, leaving no man alive!” “Do what seems good to you,” the troops replied. But the priest said, “We must consult God here.”

…is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’

So we continued the work, while half of the men held spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.

May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.

Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

Those who live far away fear Your wonders; You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy.

Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.

Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.

I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the den of lions.

…a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.

The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.

After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.

…because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,