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 the 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, how many they are; and they bear a tyrannous hate against me.
Psalm 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy; for thou hast considered my trouble,
Psalm 119:153
{Res} O consider mine adversity, and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law.
Lamentations 5:1
{The Prayer of Jeremiah} Call to remembrance, O LORD, what we have suffered; consider and see our confusion.
Lighten
Psalm 18:28
Thou also shalt light my candle; the LORD my God shall make my darkness to be light. {TYNDALE: Thou art my light, O LORD, and the LORD shall light my darkness.}
1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan heard not when his father adjured the people, wherefore he put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and dipped it in a honey comb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes received sight.
Ezra 9:8
But now is there a little and sudden graciousness come from the LORD our God, so that some of us are escaped: that he may give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may light our eyes, and give us a little life 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 hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to lighten it. For the brightness of God did light it: and the lamb was the light of it.
Lest
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I shall set drink before them, and they shall be drunken for joy: Then shall they sleep an everlasting sleep, and never wake, sayeth the LORD.
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from death, and Christ shall give thee light."
General references
Job 23:8
"For though I go before, I find him not; If I come behind, I can get no knowledge of him;
Psalm 54:2
Hear my prayer, O God, and hearken unto the words of my mouth
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.