46 Bible Verses about Dawn

(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth's surface. The Lord is his name!

is like the light of morning when the sun comes up, a morning in which there are no clouds. He is like the brightness after rain that produces grass from the earth.

Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.

During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.read more.
When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob's hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him. Then the man said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." "I will not let you go," Jacob replied, "unless you bless me."

The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. They raped her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn. The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master was staying until it became light.

Saul said, "Let's go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout them until the break of day. We won't leave any of them alive!" They replied, "Do whatever seems best to you." But the priest said, "Let's approach God here."

When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing until morning's light.

They took Asahel's body and buried him in his father's tomb at Bethlehem. Joab and his men then traveled all that night and reached Hebron by dawn.

So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.

I yearn for the Lord, more than watchmen do for the morning, yes, more than watchmen do for the morning.

thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me. If I lie down, I say, 'When will I arise?', and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

God lives within it, it cannot be moved. God rescues it at the break of dawn.

The watchman replies, "Morning is coming, but then night. If you want to ask, ask; come back again."

I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

Because they were afraid that we would run aground on the rocky coast, they threw out four anchors from the stern and wished for day to appear.

In the morning, at the earliest sign of daylight, the king got up and rushed to the lions' den.

At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying, "Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!"

On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn and marched around the city as before -- only this time they marched around it seven times.

In the morning at sunrise quickly attack the city. When he and his men come out to fight you, do what you can to him."

The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here!" So they surrounded the town and hid all night at the city gate, waiting for him to leave. They relaxed all night, thinking, "He will not leave until morning comes; then we will kill him!"

Saul sent messengers to David's house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David's wife Michal told him, "If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!"

Now after the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

And very early on the first day of the week, at sunrise, they went to the tomb.

Now on the first day of the week, at early dawn, the women went to the tomb, taking the aromatic spices they had prepared.

Then Jesus got up early in the morning when it was still very dark, departed, and went out to a deserted place, and there he spent time in prayer.

The next morning Jesus departed and went to a deserted place. Yet the crowds were seeking him, and they came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them.

When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day you have been in suspense and have gone without food; you have eaten nothing.

So we worked on, with half holding spears, from dawn till dusk.

So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law.

The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.

"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star!"

I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not close at hand. A star will march forth out of Jacob, and a scepter will rise out of Israel. He will crush the skulls of Moab, and the heads of all the sons of Sheth.

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned."

Because of our God's tender mercy the dawn will break upon us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

He will vindicate you in broad daylight, and publicly defend your just cause.

In the darkness a light shines for the godly, for each one who is merciful, compassionate, and just.

May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord! But may those who love you shine like the rising sun at its brightest!" And the land had rest for forty years.

Awake, my soul! Awake, O stringed instrument and harp! I will wake up at dawn!

Awake, O stringed instrument and harp! I will wake up at dawn!

But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.

Then your light will shine like the sunrise; your restoration will quickly arrive; your godly behavior will go before you, and the Lord's splendor will be your rear guard.