'Eyelids' in the Bible
Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak.
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
And you, O desolate one, what will you do?Though you clothe yourself in scarlet,Though you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold,Though you enlarge your eyes with paint,You make yourself beautiful in vain.Your lovers (allies) despise you;They seek your life.
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
“Furthermore, you have even sent a messenger for men to come from far away; and behold, they came—those for whom you bathed, painted your eyes, and decorated yourself with ornaments;