46 Bible Verses about Dawn

The One 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 out over the face of the earth—
Yahweh is His name.

is like the morning light when the sun rises
on a cloudless morning,
the glisten of rain on sprouting grass.”

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

During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female slaves, and his 11 sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions. Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. read more.
When the man saw that He could not defeat him, He struck Jacob’s hip socket as they wrestled and dislocated his hip. Then He said to Jacob, “Let Me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob said, “I will not let You go unless You bless me.”

But the men would not listen to him, so the man seized his concubine and took her outside to them. They raped her and abused her all night until morning. At daybreak they let her go. Early that morning, the woman made her way back, and as it was getting light, she collapsed at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was.

Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines tonight and plunder them until morning. Don’t let even one remain!”

“Do whatever you want,” the troops replied.

But the priest said, “We must consult God here.”

Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king. Nabal was in a good mood and very drunk, so she didn’t say anything to him until morning light.

Afterward, they carried Asahel to his father’s tomb in Bethlehem and buried him. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at dawn.

So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one who had not crossed the Jordan.

I wait for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning—
more than watchmen for the morning.

So I have been made to inherit months of futility,
and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
When I lie down I think:
When will I get up?
But the evening drags on endlessly,
and I toss and turn until dawn.

God is within her; she will not be toppled.
God will help her when the morning dawns.

The watchman said,
“Morning has come, and also night.
If you want to ask, ask!
Come back again.”

I thought until the morning:
He will break all my bones like a lion;
You make an end of me day and night.

Then, fearing we might run aground in some rocky place, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come.

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

At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Early on the seventh day, they started at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same way. That was the only day they marched around the city seven times.

Then get up early, and at sunrise charge the city. When he and the people who are with him come out against you, do to him whatever you can.”

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded the place and waited in ambush for him all that night at the city gate. While they were waiting quietly, they said, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

Saul sent agents to David’s house to watch for him and kill him in the morning. But his wife Michal warned David, “If you don’t escape tonight, you will be dead tomorrow!”

After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to view the tomb.

Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb at sunrise.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, He got up, went out, and made His way to a deserted place. And He was praying there.

When it was day, He went out and made His way to a deserted place. But the crowds were searching for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving them.

When daylight came, the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, convened and brought Him before their Sanhedrin.

At dawn He went to the temple complex again, and all the people were coming to Him. He sat down and began to teach them.

When it was about daylight, Paul urged them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, having eaten nothing.

So we continued the work, while half of the men were holding spears from daybreak until the stars came out.

While he was facing the square in front of the Water Gate, he read out of it from daybreak until noon before the men, the women, and those who could understand. All the people listened attentively to the book of the law.

The people walking in darkness
have seen a great light;
a light has dawned
on those living in the land of darkness.

“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to attest these things to you for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright Morning Star.”

I see him, but not now;
I perceive him, but not near.
A star will come from Jacob,
and a scepter will arise from Israel.
He will smash the forehead of Moab
and strike down all the Shethites.

The people who live in darkness
have seen a great light,
and for those living in the shadowland of death,
light has dawned.

Because of our God’s merciful compassion,
the Dawn from on high will visit us
to shine on those who live in darkness
and the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Life was in Him,
and that life was the light of men.
That light shines in the darkness,
yet the darkness did not overcome it.

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

making your righteousness shine like the dawn,
your justice like the noonday.

Light shines in the darkness for the upright.
He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

Lord, may all your enemies perish as Sisera did.
But may those who love Him
be like the rising of the sun in its strength.

And the land was peaceful 40 years.

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

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

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

Then your light will appear like the dawn,
and your recovery will come quickly.
Your righteousness will go before you,
and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard.