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Psalms 13:3–4
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Psalms 13:3
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.
Psalms 13:4
4Lest 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.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 13:3
To think upon carefully; to examine, observe, regard, or take into account.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To perceive by the ear; to listen, attend, understand, or obey, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To make light or give light; to illuminate, enlighten, flash, or relieve a burden.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To rest in natural sleep; by figure, to be inactive or dead and at rest.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 13:4
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To speak, declare, tell, or express; also what is said.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Disturbance, affliction, distress, vexation, or difficulty; also, to disturb, distress, afflict, or inconvenience.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Changed position, stirred, shaken, or influenced.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 3
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Open the full verse study8And 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.
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Open the full verse study28For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
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Open the full verse study39In 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.
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Open the full verse study29Then 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.
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Open the full verse study1GIVE ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.
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Open the full verse study27But 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.
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Open the full verse study14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
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Open the full verse study57And 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.
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Open the full verse study1REMEMBER, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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Open the full verse study32A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
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Open the full verse study153Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
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Open the full verse study19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
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Open the full verse study7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
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Open the full verse study13Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
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Open the full verse study23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
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Open the full verse study2O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
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Open the full verse study19And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.
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Open the full verse study3A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
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Open the full verse study6He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
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Open the full verse study9For 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?
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Open the full verse study16For 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.
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Open the full verse study16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
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Open the full verse study12And 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.
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Open the full verse study11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
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Open the full verse study6Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
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Open the full verse study1I 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.
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Open the full verse study19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
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Open the full verse study25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
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Open the full verse study22Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
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Open the full verse study2He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
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Open the full verse study19Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
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