Psalms 13:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Consider [and] answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַד־אָ֨נָה אָשִׁ֪ית עֵצ֡וֹת בְּנַפְשִׁ֗י יָג֣וֹן בִּלְבָבִ֣י יוֹמָ֑ם עַד־אָ֓נָה ׀ יָר֖וּם אֹיְבִ֣י עָלָֽי׃

Transliteration

Until-when ʾāšît ʿēṣôt in-napšî yāgôn in-ləbābî yômām until-when yārûm ʾōyəbî over-me

Grammar Details

עַד־אָ֨נָה: interrogative phrase 'until when/how long'
*ʾāšît*: 1st person singular qal imperfect verb - I will put/place
*ʿēṣôt*: feminine plural noun - counsels/plans/devices
בְּנַפְשִׁ֗י: preposition beth ('in') with feminine singular noun ('soul') with 1st person singular suffix - in my soul
*yāgôn*: masculine singular noun - sorrow/grief
בִּלְבָבִ֣י: preposition beth ('in') with masculine singular noun ('heart') with 1st person singular suffix - in my heart
*yômām*: adverb - daily/by day
*yārûm*: 3rd person masculine singular qal imperfect verb - he will be exalted/lift up
*ʾōyəbî*: masculine singular noun ('enemy') with 1st person singular suffix - my enemy
עָלָֽי: preposition עַל ('over/upon') with 1st person singular suffix - over me

Word Meanings

*ʾāšît*: put/place/set/arrange
*ʿēṣôt*: plans/counsels/advice/strategies
*napšî*: my soul/my self/my being/my life
*yāgôn*: sorrow/grief/anguish
*ləbābî*: my heart/mind/inner being
*yômām*: daily/by day/all day long
*yārûm*: be exalted/triumph/prevail/be lifted up

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Ezra 9:8 : 8 And now for a little moment grace has been showed from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
Jer 51:39 : 39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
Ps 5:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; with the Nehiloth. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O Jehovah, Consider my meditation.
1 Sam 14:27 : 27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
1 Sam 14:29 : 29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
Ps 18:28 : 28 For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
Ps 119:153 : 153 RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget thy law.
Ps 25:19 : 19 Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.
Ps 31:7 : 7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness; For thou hast seen my affliction: Thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Ps 9:13 : 13 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;
Jer 51:57 : 57 And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
Lam 5:1 : 1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
Luke 2:32 : 32 A light for revelation to the Gentiles, And the glory of thy people Israel.
Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
Rev 21:23 : 23 And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof [is] the Lamb.

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