And now for a little space grace hath been showed 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.
Psalm 13:3 - King James Version - American Edition Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine 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 space grace hath been showed 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.
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Have 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:
In 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.
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, saith the King, whose name is The Lord of hosts.
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
And 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.
But 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 a honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
Then 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.