Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Holman Bible
Restore brightness to my eyes;
otherwise, I will sleep in death.
International Standard Version
Look at me! Answer me, LORD, my God! Give light to my eyes! Otherwise, I will sleep in death;
A Conservative Version
Consider [and] answer me, O LORD my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death,
American Standard Version
Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the'sleep of death;
Amplified
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
Give light (life) to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,
Bible in Basic English
Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
Darby Translation
Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Julia Smith Translation
How long shall I put counsels in my soul, grief in my heart the day? how long shall mine enemy rise up against me?
King James 2000
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Lexham Expanded Bible
Consider [and] answer me, O Yahweh my God. Give light to my eyes lest I sleep [the sleep of] death,
Modern King James verseion
Look! Answer me, O Jehovah my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Consider, and hear me, O LORD my God. Lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death,
NET Bible
Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God! Revive me, or else I will die!
New Heart English Bible
Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
The Emphasized Bible
Have regard! answer me O Yahweh my God, - Light up mine eyes, lest I sleep on into death:
Webster
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
World English Bible
Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
Youngs Literal Translation
Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 13:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Deliverance
2
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
3
Names
Cross References
Ezra 9:8
And now as for a brief moment there has been the mercy of the LORD our God, to leave us an escape, and that we may be given a stake in his holy sanctuary that our God may illuminate our eyes and give us a little preservation of life in our bondage.
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will place their feasts before them, and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the LORD.
1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan had not heard when his father charged the people with the oath, therefore, he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in a honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened.
1 Samuel 14:29
Then Jonathan said, My father has troubled the land. See, I pray you, how my eyes have been enlightened because I tasted a little of this honey.
Psalm 5:1
Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my meditation.
Psalm 18:28
For thou wilt light my fire: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Psalm 119:153
RESH. Consider my affliction and deliver me; for I have not forgotten thy law.
Psalm 9:13
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Psalm 25:19
Resh Consider my enemies, for they are multiplied; 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
Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep an eternal sleep and shall not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of the hosts.
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; look, and behold our reproach.
Luke 2:32
a light to be revealed unto the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.
Revelation 21:23
And the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in her, for the clarity of God has illuminated it, and the Lamb is its lamp.