Psalms 13:3–4
Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Consider and heare me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleepe of death.
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Least mine enimie say, I haue preuailed against him: and those that trouble mee, reioyce, when I am moued.
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From verse 3
8And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
8And now for a †litle space grace hath bene shewed from the LORD our God, to leaue vs a remnant to escape, and to giue vs ‖a †naile in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and giue vs a litle reuiuing in our bondage:
- Psalms 18:28Rank 2 from verse 3
- Jeremiah 51:39Rank 3 from verse 3
39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.
39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 14:29Rank 4 from verse 3
29Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
29Then said Ionathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes haue beene enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honie:
- Psalms 5:1Rank 5 from verse 3
- 1 Samuel 14:27Rank 6 from verse 3
27But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
27But Ionathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath; wherefore he put foorth the ende of the rodde that was in his hand, and dipt it in an hony combe, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened.
- Ephesians 5:14Rank 7 from verse 3
- Jeremiah 51:57Rank 8 from verse 3
57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
57And I will make drunke her princes and her wise men, her captaines and her rulers, and her mightie men: and they shall sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, saith the king, whose Name is the LORD of hosts.
- Lamentations 5:1Rank 9 from verse 3
- Psalms 119:153Rank 11 from verse 3
- Psalms 25:19Rank 12 from verse 3
- Psalms 31:7Rank 13 from verse 3
- Psalms 9:13Rank 14 from verse 3
- Revelation 21:23Rank 15 from verse 3
From verse 4
- Psalms 25:2Rank 1 from verse 4
- Jeremiah 1:19Rank 2 from verse 4
- Proverbs 12:3Rank 3 from verse 4
- Psalms 62:6Rank 4 from verse 4
- Joshua 7:9Rank 5 from verse 4
9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
9For the Canaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land shall heare of it, and shall enuiron vs round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou doe vnto thy great Name?
- Lamentations 1:16Rank 6 from verse 4
16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
16For these things I weepe, *mine eye, mine eye runneth downe with water, because the comforter that should †relieue my soule is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy preuailed.
- Psalms 38:16Rank 7 from verse 4
- Ezekiel 35:12–15Rank 8 from verse 4
12And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.
13Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
14Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.
15As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
12And thou shalt know, that I am the LORD, and that I haue heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountaines of Israel, saying; They are layed desolate, they are giuen vs †to consume.
13Thus with your mouth yee haue †boasted against me, & haue multiplied your words against me: I haue heard them.
14Thus saith the LORD God; When the whole earth reioyceth, I will make thee desolate.
15As thou didst reioyce at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I doe vnto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, euen all of it, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
- Psalms 10:11Rank 9 from verse 4
- Psalms 112:6Rank 10 from verse 4
- Psalms 121:1–3Rank 11 from verse 4
1I WILL lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
1¶ I will lift vp mine eyes vnto the hilles: from whence commeth my helpe.
2*My helpe commeth from the LORD: which made heauen and earth.
3He will not suffer thy foote to bee moued: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
- Psalms 35:19Rank 12 from verse 4
- Psalms 35:25Rank 13 from verse 4
- Psalms 55:22Rank 14 from verse 4
- Psalms 62:2Rank 15 from verse 4
- Psalms 9:19Rank 16 from verse 4
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Psalms 13:3
1. To think upon attentively; to examine or weigh. 2. To regard, observe, or take notice of.
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Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.
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The divine name of the living God, also named JEHOVAH.
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The one true God.
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To make light or give light; to illuminate, enlighten, flash, or relieve a burden.
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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.
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For fear that, to prevent the possibility that, or so that an undesired or warned-of result may not occur.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Sense 1: Natural bodily rest with suspended waking activity; figuratively, inattention or inactivity; or death described as sleep. Sense 2: To rest in sleep; figuratively, to lie in death.
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Psalms 13:4
For fear that, to prevent the possibility that, or so that an undesired or warned-of result may not occur.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.
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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893
Sense 1: Disturbance, affliction, distress, vexation, or difficulty. Sense 2: To disturb, distress, afflict, or inconvenience.
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1. To be glad, take joy, delight, or exult; to express gladness. 2. To make glad or cause to rejoice.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of move, meaning to change place; to stir, shake, prompt, influence, or set in action.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
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2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
2How long shall I take counsel in my soule, hauing sorrow in my heart dayly? how long shall mine enemie be exalted ouer me?
3Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
3Consider and heare me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleepe of death.
Selected passage4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
4Least mine enimie say, I haue preuailed against him: and those that trouble mee, reioyce, when I am moued.
Selected passage5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
5But I haue trusted in thy mercy, my heart shall reioyce in thy saluation.