the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 13:3
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Look and answer me, O Yahweh my God;Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,
Loke downe and heare me O God my Lorde: lighten myne eyes, lest that I sleepe in death.
Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Look! Answer me, O Jehovah, my God! Make my eyes gleam, lest I sleep the death;
Lord my God, look at me and give me an answer. Make me feel strong again, or I will die.
Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
Consider and heare me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleepe of death.
Considre, ad heare me, o LORDE my God: lighten myne eyes, that I slepe not in death.
Take a good look at me, God , my God; I want to look life in the eye, So no enemy can get the best of me or laugh when I fall on my face.
Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
Consider [and] answer me, O Yahweh my God: Lighten my eyes, or else I will sleep the [sleep of] death;
Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep [the sleep] of death;
Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God! Revive me, or else I will die!
Please listen, Lord God, and answer my prayers. Make my eyes sparkle again, or else I will fall into the sleep of death.
How long must I keep asking myself what to do, with sorrow in my heart every day? How long must my enemy dominate me?
Beholde, and heare mee, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, that I sleepe not in death:
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God; lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,
Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; Give light (life) to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,
Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart by day?
Turn and answer me, O Lord my God! Restore the sparkle to my eyes, or I will die.
Look on me and answer, O Lord, my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death.
Look on me, hearken to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;
Consider and answer me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
See me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God! Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,
Have regard! answer me O Yahweh my God, - Light up mine eyes, lest I sleep on into death:
(12-3) How long shall my enemy be exalted over Me?
Consider and answer me, O Yahweh my God. Give light to my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; Enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,
Lord , look at me. Answer me, my God; tell me, or I will die.
Look at me, O Lord my God, and answer me. Restore my strength; don't let me die.
Consider me and answer, Lord my God. Restore brightness to my eyes; otherwise, I will sleep in death.
Hou long schal myn enemy be reisid on me?
Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,
Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Consider: Psalms 9:13, Psalms 25:19, Psalms 31:7, Psalms 119:153, Lamentations 5:1
lighten: Psalms 18:28, 1 Samuel 14:27, 1 Samuel 14:29, Ezra 9:8, Luke 2:32, Revelation 21:23
lest: Jeremiah 51:39, Jeremiah 51:57, Ephesians 5:14
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 6:40 - my God Psalms 7:1 - O Psalms 17:6 - incline Psalms 19:8 - enlightening Psalms 21:4 - asked Psalms 34:5 - and were Psalms 38:16 - For I said Psalms 54:2 - General Psalms 76:5 - they Psalms 94:17 - dwelt Proverbs 29:13 - Lord
Cross-References
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Consider [and] hear me, O Lord my God,.... The psalmist amidst all his distresses rightly applies to God by prayer, claims his interest in him as his covenant God, which still continued notwithstanding all his darkness, desertions, and afflictions; and entreats him to "consider" his affliction and trouble, and deliver him out of it; to consider his enemies, how many and mighty they were; and his own weakness his frame, that he was but dust, and unable to stand against them: or to "look" u upon his affliction, and upon him under it, with an eye of pity and compassion; to have respect to him and to his prayers, and to turn unto him, and lift up the light of his countenance upon him: and so this petition is opposed to the complaint in Psalms 13:1; and he further requests that he would "hear" him; that is, so as to answer him, and that immediately, and thereby show that he had not forgotten him, but was mindful of him, of his love to him, and covenant with him;
lighten mine eyes: meaning either the eyes of his body, which might be dim and dull through a failure of the animal spirits, by reason of inward grief, outward afflictions, or for want of bodily food; which when obtained refreshes nature, cheers the animal spirits, enlightens or gives a briskness to the eyes; see 1 Samuel 14:27; or else the eyes of his understanding, Ephesians 1:18; that he might behold wondrous things in the law of God, know the things which were freely given to him of God, see more clearly his interest in him, and in the covenant of his grace, and have his soul refreshed and comforted with the light of God's countenance; and he be better able to discern his enemies, and guard against them; and be directed to take the best method to be delivered and secured from them. The people of God are sometimes in the dark, and see no light; especially when benighted, and in sleepy frames; and it is God's work to enlighten and quicken them;
lest I sleep [the sleep] of death; a natural death w, which is comparable to sleep, and often expressed by it; and which sense agrees with lightening the eyes of his body, as before explained; or rather the sense is, lift up the light of thy countenance, revive thy work in the midst of the years; let me see thy goodness in the land of the living, that I may not faint and sink and die away. Or it may be an eternal death is designed; for though true believers shall never die this death, yet they may be in such circumstances, as through unbelief to fear they shall. The Targum paraphrases the word thus;
"enlighten mine eyes in thy law, lest I sin, and sleep with those who are guilty of death.''
u הביטה "intuere", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "aspice", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius. w χαλκεον υπνον, Homer. Iliad. 11. v. 241. "ferreus somnus", Virgil. Aeneid. 10. v. 745, & 12. v. 309.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Consider and hear me - literally, “Look, hear me.” God had seemed to avert his face as if he would not even look upon him Psalms 13:1; and the psalmist now prays that he “would” look upon him - that he would regard his wants - that he would attend to his cry. So we pray to one who turns away from us as if he were not disposed to hear, and as if he cared nothing about us.
Lighten mine eyes - The allusion here is, probably, to his exhaustion, arising from trouble and despair, as if he were about to die. The sight grows dim as death approaches; and he seemed to feel that death was near. He says that unless God should interpose, the darkness would deepen, and he must die. The prayer, therefore, that God would “enlighten his eyes,” was a prayer that he would interpose and save him from that death which he felt was rapidly approaching.
Lest I sleep the sleep of death - literally, “Lest I sleep the death;” that is, “in” death, or, as in the common version, the sleep of death. The idea is, that death, whose approach was indicated by the dimness of vision, was fast stealing over him as a sleep, and that unless his clearness of vision were restored, it would soon end in the total darkness - the deep and profound sleep - of death. Death is often compared to sleep. See the note at 1 Corinthians 11:30; the note at John 11:11, John 11:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; Daniel 12:2. The resemblance between the two is so obvious as to have been remarked in all ages, and the comparison is found in the writings of all nations. It is only, however, in connection with Christianity that the idea has been fully carried out by the doctrine of the resurrection, for as we lie down at night with the hope of awaking to the pursuits and enjoyments of a new day, so the Christian lies down in death with the hope of awaking in the morning of the resurrection to the pursuits and enjoyments of a new and eternal day. Everywhere else death is, to the mind, a long and unbroken sleep. Compare Jeremiah 51:39, Jeremiah 51:57.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 13:3. Consider and hear me — Rather, answer me. I have prayed; I am seeking thy face I am lost without thee; I am in darkness; my life draws nigh to destruction; if I die unforgiven, I die eternally. O Lord my God, consider this; hear and answer, for thy name's sake.
