Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
General references
Bible References
Consider
Psalm 9:13
Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
Psalm 25:19
See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.
Psalm 31:7
I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;
Psalm 119:153
O see my trouble, and be my saviour; for I keep your law in my mind,
Lamentations 5:1
Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
Lighten
Psalm 18:28
You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.
1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan, having no knowledge of the oath his father had put on the people, stretching out the rod which was in his hand, put the end of it in the honey, and put it to his mouth; then his eyes were made bright.
Ezra 9:8
And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.
Luke 2:32
A light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
Revelation 21:23
And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.
Lest
Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
Ephesians 5:14
For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
General references
Job 23:8
See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;
Psalm 54:2
Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
Matthew 5:4
Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.