Watch for the morning. — Comp. Psalms 123:2 for another figure of the same earnest upward gaze. In the “watcher for the dawn” there may be an allusion to the Levite-sentinel whose duty it was to signal the first ray of dawn, and the moment for commencing the sacred rites of the Temple (Psalms 134:1), but the figure if general, as marking the impatience of a deeply agitated soul — a sufferer waiting for relief, a contrite sinner for forgiveness — is as striking as graceful. (See Deuteronomy 28:67.)
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Psalms 130:6
6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watcha for the morning.