And now for a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us security in his holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Psalm 13:3 - King James 2000 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; lighten the eyes [of my faith to behold Your face in the pitchlike darkness], lest I sleep the sleep of death, American Standard Version (1901) Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; Common English Bible Look at me! Answer me, LORD my God! Restore sight to my eyes! Otherwise, I’ll sleep the sleep of death, Catholic Public Domain Version They have all gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they acted deceitfully; the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways: and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. |
And now for a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us security in his holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
[Resh] Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.
For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;
[To the Chief Musician. With flutes. A Psalm of David.] Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
In their excitement I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
And 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, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
Therefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God is its light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were brightened.
Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land: see, I ask you, how my eyes have been brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.