Psalms 13:3
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.