Day, night, and watch imagery uses darkness, dawn, morning, evening, or night watches to picture sorrow and hope, vigilance, deliverance, judgment, or readiness for the Lord.
Day, night, and watch imagery uses darkness, dawn, morning, evening, or night watches to picture sorrow and hope, vigilance, deliverance, judgment, or readiness for the Lord.
A daily-cycle motif in which day, night, evening, morning, dawn, or watches of the night signify created order, temporary sorrow, expectant hope, moral vigilance, deliverance at God’s time, or eschatological readiness.
These examples show how Day, Night, Morning, Evening, and Watch Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
the evening and the morning were the first day
The first day establishes created time as ordered by God.
in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host
The morning watch becomes the moment of divine intervention against Egypt.
weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning
Night and morning picture temporary sorrow followed by restored joy.
meditate on thee in the night watches
Night watches become a setting for prayerful remembrance.
as a watch in the night
A night watch pictures the brevity of human time before God.
more than they that watch for the morning
Waiting for the LORD is compared to watchmen longing for dawn.
in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them
The late-night watch heightens the disciples’ distress and Christ’s coming.
at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning
The divisions of the night urge continual readiness.
in the second watch, or come in the third watch
Watch language pictures servants ready for their master’s return.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand
Night and day imagery calls believers to moral wakefulness.
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