Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
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?
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 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; 4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
Names
Cross References
Ezra 9:8
And now for a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us security in his holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Jeremiah 51:39
In their excitement I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.
1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan heard not 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 brightened.
1 Samuel 14:29
Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land: see, I ask you, how my eyes have been brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
Psalm 5:1
[To the Chief Musician. With flutes. A Psalm of David.] Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
Psalm 18:28
For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
Psalm 119:153
[Resh] Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.
Psalm 9:13
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
Psalm 25:19
Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalm 31:7
I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have 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 a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Luke 2:32
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
Revelation 21:23
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God is its light, and the Lamb is its lamp.