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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
waken .
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Examples
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¶ The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
Isaiah 50. 1999
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The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
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The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision
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The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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This heart also a wakeneth virtue and yet remaineth immovable, therefore is this virtue like God's virtue.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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"He wakeneth morning by morning, He wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught."
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Compare Isa 5: 4; 50: 4, "he wakeneth morning by morning." knoweth no shame -- The unjust Jews are not shamed by His justice into repentance.
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Also, the spiritual "weary" (Isa 42: 3; Mt 11: 28). wakeneth morning by morning, &c.
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The image is drawn from a master wakening his pupils early for instruction. wakeneth ... ear -- prepares me for receiving His divine instructions. as the learned -- as one taught by Him.
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