New King James Version
Psalms 13:3
3Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of 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 Living Translation (NLT)Turn and answer me, O Lord my God! Restore the sparkle to my eyes, or I will die.
Context of Psalms 13:3
1How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death; 4Lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; Lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved. 5But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
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 9:13Have mercy on me, O Lord! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,
- Psalms 25:19Consider my enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.
- Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, For You have considered my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities,
- Psalms 119:153Consider my affliction and deliver me, For I do not forget Your law.
- Lamentations 5:1Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach!
- Psalms 18:28For You will light my lamp; The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
- 1 Samuel 14:27But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath; therefore he stretched out the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his countenance brightened.
- Ezra 9:8And now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage.
- Luke 2:32A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of Your people Israel.”
- Revelation 21:23The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.
- Jeremiah 51:39In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, That they may rejoice, And sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake,” says the Lord.
- Ephesians 5:14Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”
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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