Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
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Bible References
Consider
Psalm 9:13
Be merciful to me, O Jehovah! See the sufferings my enemies cause me! Rescue me from death, O Jehovah.
Psalm 25:19
See how my enemies have increased in number, how they have hated me with vicious hatred!
Psalm 31:7
I will rejoice and be glad because of your loving-kindness (mercy). You have seen my misery. You have known my troubles.
Psalm 119:153
Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I do not forget your law.
Lamentations 5:1
Keep in mind, O Jehovah, what has come to us. Take note and see our shame.
Lighten
Psalm 18:28
O Jehovah, you light my lamp. My God turns my darkness into light.
1 Samuel 14:27
Jonathan had not heard that his father forced the people to take an oath. So he stretched out the tip of the staff he had in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. When he put it to his mouth his eyes lit up.
Ezra 9:8
Now for a little time grace (favour) has come to us from Jehovah our God, to let a small band of us go free and to give us a nail in his holy place. Our God gives light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.
Luke 2:32
It is a light of revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.
Revelation 21:23
The city did not need the sun or the moon to shine on it. For the glory of God and of the Lamb was its light.
Lest
Jeremiah 51:39
When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet and make them drunk, that they may become jubilant. Then they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up, declares Jehovah.
Ephesians 5:14
For this reason it says: Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
General references
Job 23:8
Behold, I go forward but He is not there. I go 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 those who mourn, for they will be comforted.