Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Lighten
Lest
General references
Bible References
Lighten
Luke 2:32
a light to enlighten the gentiles, and to be the glory of thy people Israel.
Revelation 21:23
And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine upon it; for the glory of God lightened it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Lest
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light."
General references
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they who mourn; for they will be comforted.