Parallel Verses

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?

New American Standard Bible

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
Enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

King James Version

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Holman Bible

Consider me and answer, Lord my God.
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;

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,

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

A Plea For Deliverance

2 How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou wholly forget me? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 3 How long shall I put counsels in my soul, grief in my heart the day? how long shall mine enemy rise up against me? 4 Look upon, answer me, O Jehovah my God: enlighten mine eyes, lest I shall sleep the death;

Cross References

Ezra 9:8

And now for a little moment grace was from Jehovah our God to leave to us an escaping, and to give to us a nail in his holy place, for our God to enlighten our eyes and to give us a little preservation of our life in our servitude.

Jeremiah 51:39

In their heat I will set their drinkings, and I made them drunken so that they shall exult, and sleep an eternal sleep, and they shall not rouse up, says Jehovah.

1 Samuel 14:27

And Jonathan heard not in his father's causing the people to swear: and he will stretch forth the extremity of the rod which is in his hand, and he will dip it in the droppings of the honey, and he will turn back his hand to his mouth, and his eyes will see.

1 Samuel 14:29

And Jonathan will say, My father troubled the land: see, now, that mine eyes saw, because I tasted a little of this honey.

Psalm 5:1

To the overseer of the pipes; chanting of David. Give ear to my sayings, O Jehovah; attend to my cry.

Psalm 18:28

For thou wilt enlighten my lamp Jehovah my God will give light to my darkness.

Psalm 119:153

See mine affliction, and deliver me: for I forget not thy law.

Psalm 9:13

Compassionate me, O Jehovah: see my affliction from those hating me, thou lifting me up from the gates of death:

Psalm 25:19

See mine enemies, for they were many, and they hated me with the hatred of violence.

Psalm 31:7

I will rejoice and be glad in thy mercy, for thou sawest mine affliction; thou knewest my soul in straits;

Jeremiah 51:57

And I made drunk her chiefs and her wise, her prefects and her rulers, and her strong ones: and they shall sleep an eternal sleep, and they shall not rise up, says the King, Jehovah of armies his name.

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O Jehovah, what was to us: look and see our reproach.

Luke 2:32

A light for the revelation of the nations, and the glory of thy people Israel.

Ephesians 5:14

Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they shine in her: for the glory of God enlightened her, and her light the Lamb.

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