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Psalms 13:3–5

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Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
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From verse 3

  1. Ezra 9:8Rank 1 from verse 3
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    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.

  2. Psalms 18:28Rank 2 from verse 3
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    28For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

  3. Jeremiah 51:39Rank 3 from verse 3
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    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.

  4. 1 Samuel 14:29Rank 4 from verse 3
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    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.

  5. Psalms 5:1Rank 5 from verse 3
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    1GIVE ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.

  6. 1 Samuel 14:27Rank 6 from verse 3
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    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.

  7. Ephesians 5:14Rank 7 from verse 3
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    14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

  8. Jeremiah 51:57Rank 8 from verse 3
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    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.

  9. Lamentations 5:1Rank 9 from verse 3
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    1REMEMBER, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

  10. Luke 2:32Rank 10 from verse 3
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    32A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.

  11. Psalms 119:153Rank 11 from verse 3
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    153Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

  12. Psalms 25:19Rank 12 from verse 3
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    19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  13. Psalms 31:7Rank 13 from verse 3
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    7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

  14. Psalms 9:13Rank 14 from verse 3
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    13Have 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:

  15. Revelation 21:23Rank 15 from verse 3
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    23And 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.

From verse 4

  1. Psalms 25:2Rank 1 from verse 4
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    2O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

  2. Jeremiah 1:19Rank 2 from verse 4
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    19And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

  3. Proverbs 12:3Rank 3 from verse 4
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    3A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

  4. Psalms 62:6Rank 4 from verse 4
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    6He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

  5. Joshua 7:9Rank 5 from verse 4
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    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?

  6. Lamentations 1:16Rank 6 from verse 4
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    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.

  7. Psalms 38:16Rank 7 from verse 4
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    16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

  8. Ezekiel 35:12–15Rank 8 from verse 4
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    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.

  9. Psalms 10:11Rank 9 from verse 4
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    11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

  10. Psalms 112:6Rank 10 from verse 4
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    6Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

  11. Psalms 121:1–3Rank 11 from verse 4
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    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.

  12. Psalms 35:19Rank 12 from verse 4
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    19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

  13. Psalms 35:25Rank 13 from verse 4
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    25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

  14. Psalms 55:22Rank 14 from verse 4
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    22Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

  15. Psalms 62:2Rank 15 from verse 4
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    2He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.

  16. Psalms 9:19Rank 16 from verse 4
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    19Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

From verse 5

  1. Isaiah 12:2Rank 1 from verse 5
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    2Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

  2. Jude 1:21Rank 2 from verse 5
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    21Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

  3. Habakkuk 3:18Rank 3 from verse 5
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    18Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

  4. Psalms 52:8Rank 4 from verse 5
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    8But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

  5. Psalms 119:81Rank 5 from verse 5
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    81My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

  6. Psalms 36:7Rank 6 from verse 5
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    7How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

  7. Psalms 33:18Rank 7 from verse 5
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    18Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

  8. Psalms 33:21–22Rank 8 from verse 5
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    21For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

    22Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

  9. Psalms 51:12Rank 9 from verse 5
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    12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

  10. Psalms 9:14Rank 10 from verse 5
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    14That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.

  11. 1 Samuel 2:1Rank 11 from verse 5
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    1AND Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

  12. Luke 2:20Rank 12 from verse 5
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    20And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

  13. Psalms 32:10Rank 13 from verse 5
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    10Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

  14. Luke 1:47Rank 14 from verse 5
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    47And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

  15. Psalms 147:11Rank 15 from verse 5
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    11The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.

  16. Psalms 43:4–5Rank 16 from verse 5
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    4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

    5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 13:3

COMBINED MEANING

consider

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1. To think upon attentively; to examine or weigh. 2. To regard, observe, or take notice of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

hear

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

lighten

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To make light or give light; to illuminate, enlighten, flash, or relieve a burden.

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COMBINED MEANING

eyes

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

lest

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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

COMBINED MEANING

sleep

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 13:4

COMBINED MEANING

lest

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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

COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

against

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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

COMBINED MEANING

trouble

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Sense 1: Disturbance, affliction, distress, vexation, or difficulty. Sense 2: To disturb, distress, afflict, or inconvenience.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

rejoice

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1. To be glad, take joy, delight, or exult; to express gladness. 2. To make glad or cause to rejoice.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

moved

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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

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 13:5

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

trusted

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Delivered in confidence to the care of another. Confided in; relied on; depended on; applied to persons.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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mercy

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Compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

rejoice

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1. To be glad, take joy, delight, or exult; to express gladness. 2. To make glad or cause to rejoice.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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13:1HOW long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

13:2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

13:3Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

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13:4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

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13:5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

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13:6I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

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