Psalm 13:3 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

Look at me! Answer me, O LORD my God! Light up my eyes, or else I will die(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

ASV:

Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the'sleep of death;

BBE:

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;

DBY:

Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

ERV:

Consider and answer me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

JPS:

Behold Thou, and answer me, O LORD my God; lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

WBS:

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

WEB:

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

YLT:

Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,

Psalm 13:3 Cross References

XREF:

1 Samuel 14:29 Then Jonathan said, "My father has troubled the land. See now, how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.

Ezra 9:8 "But now for a brief moment grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us an escaped remnant and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage.

Job 33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of life.

Psalm 5:1 For the choir director; for flute accompaniment. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, Consider my groaning.

Psalm 18:28 For You light my lamp; The LORD my God illumines my darkness.

Jeremiah 51:39 "When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

13:3 Lighten - Revive and comfort, and deliver me from the darkness of death, which is ready to come upon me.

MHC:

13:1-6 The psalmist complains that God had long withdrawn. He earnestly prays for comfort. He assures himself of an answer of peace. - God sometimes hides his face, and leaves his own children in the dark concerning their interest in him: and this they lay to heart more than any outward trouble whatever. But anxious cares are heavy burdens with which believers often load themselves more than they need. The bread of sorrows is sometimes the saint's daily bread; our Master himself was a man of sorrows. It is a common temptation, when trouble lasts long, to think that it will last always. Those who have long been without joy, begin to be without hope. We should never allow ourselves to make any complaints but what drive us to our knees. Nothing is more killing to a soul than the want of God's favour; nothing more reviving than the return of it. The sudden, delightful changes in the book of Psalms, are often very remarkable. We pass from depth of despondency to the height of religious confidence and joy. It is thus, ver. 5. All is gloomy dejection in ver. 4; but here the mind of the despondent worshipper rises above all its distressing fears, and throws itself, without reserve, on the mercy and care of its Divine Redeemer. See the power of faith, and how good it is to draw near to God. If we bring our cares and griefs to the throne of grace, and leave them there, we may go away like Hannah, and our countenances will be no more said, 1Sa 1:18. God's mercy is the support of the psalmist's faith. Finding I have that to trust to, I am comforted, though I have no merit of my own. His faith in God's mercy filled his heart with joy in his salvation; for joy and peace come by believing. He has dealt bountifully with me. By faith he was as confident of salvation, as if it had been completed already. In this way believers pour out their prayers, renouncing all hopes but in the mercy of God through the Saviour's blood: and sometimes suddenly, at others gradually, they will find their burdens removed, and their comforts restored; they then allow that their fears and complaints were unnecessary, and acknowledge that the Lord hath dealt bountifully with them.

CONC:

Attentively Behold Consider Death Enlighten Lest Lighten O Overtake Shining Sleep Voice

Consider Death Enlighten Eyes Hear Light Shining Sleep Voice

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