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 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:
Psalm 25:19
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalm 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Psalm 119:153
RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

Lighten

Psalm 18:28
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
1 Samuel 14:27
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 an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
Ezra 9:8
And 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.
Luke 2:32
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Revelation 21:23
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.

Lest

Jeremiah 51:39
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.
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

General references

Job 23:8
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Psalm 54:2
Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

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