Psalm 13:3 {12:3}
Good News Translation
Look at me, O LORD my God, and answer me. Restore my strength; don't let me die.

New Revised Standard Version
Consider and answer me, O LORD my God! Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

Contemporary English Version
Please listen, LORD God, and answer my prayers. Make my eyes sparkle again, or else I will fall into the sleep of death.

New American Bible
How long must I carry sorrow in my soul, grief in my heart day after day? How long will my enemy triumph over me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Consider

Psalm 9:13 Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.

Psalm 25:19 Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.

Psalm 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

Psalm 119:153 See my humiliation and deliver me for I have not forgotten thy law.

Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.

lighten

Psalm 18:28 For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.

1 Samuel 14:27,29 But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people: and he put forth the end of the rod, which he had in his hand, and dipt it in a honeycomb: and he carried his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened. . . .

Ezra 9:8 And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made before the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his holy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would give us a little life in our bondage.

Luke 2:32 A light to the revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.

Revelation 21:23 And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

less

Jeremiah 51:39,57 In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord. . . .

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

Context
How Long, O LORD?
2How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day? 3How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?4Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten my eyes, that I never sleep in death:…
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:29
And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land: you have seen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey:

Ezra 9:8
And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made before the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his holy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would give us a little life in our bondage.

Job 33:30
That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.

Psalm 5:1
Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for David. [2] Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.

Psalm 18:28
For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.

Psalm 27:7
Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have mercy on me and hear me.

Proverbs 29:13
The poor man and the creditor have met one another: the Lord is the enlightener of them both.

Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.

Psalm 13:2
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