Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 13:3
3Consider me and answer, Lord my God. Restore brightness to my eyes; otherwise, I will sleep in death.
Psalms 13:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
- New International Version (NIV)Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
- English Standard Version (ESV)Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Context of Psalms 13:3
1How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2How long will I store up anxious concerns within me, agony in my mind every day? How long will my enemy dominate me? Consider me and answer, Lord my God. Restore brightness to my eyes; otherwise, I will sleep in death. 4My enemy will say, “I have triumphed over him,” and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken. 5But I have trusted in your faithful love; my heart will rejoice in your deliverance.
Read all of Psalms 13Psalms 13:3 word by word
הַבִּ֣יטָֽה עֲ֭נֵנִי יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֑י הָאִ֥ירָה עֵ֝ינַ֗י פֶּן־אִישַׁ֥ן הַמָּֽוֶת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 13:3
- Psalms 9:13Be gracious to me, Lord; consider my affliction at the hands of those who hate me. Lift me up from the gates of death,
- Psalms 25:19Consider my enemies; they are numerous, and they hate me violently.
- Psalms 31:7I will rejoice and be glad in your faithful love because you have seen my affliction. You know the troubles of my soul
- Psalms 119:153Consider my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your instruction.
- Lamentations 5:1Lord, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our disgrace!
- Psalms 18:28Lord, you light my lamp; my God illuminates my darkness.
- 1 Samuel 14:27However, Jonathan had not heard his father make the troops swear the oath. He reached out with the end of the staff he was carrying and dipped it into the honeycomb. When he ate the honey, he had renewed energy.
- Ezra 9:8But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the Lord our God to preserve a remnant for us and give us a stake in his holy place. Even in our slavery, God has given us a little relief and light to our eyes.
- Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the Gentiles and glory to your people Israel.
- Revelation 21:23The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
- Jeremiah 51:39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they celebrate. Then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up. This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Ephesians 5:14for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
Commentaries on Psalms 13:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Consider 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Consider and hear me - literally, “Look, hear me.” God had seemed to avert his face as if he would not even look upon him Psalm 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The psalmist's suffering feels like death (Psalms 22:15; 55:4; 88:15; 94:17; 116:3).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. lighten mine eyes--dim with weakness, denoting approaching death (compare 1Sa 14:27-29; Psa 6:7; 38:10).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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