Verse 3

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

Referenced Verses

  • Ezra 9:8 : 8 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD 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 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
  • Ps 5:1 : 1 Give ear to my words, O LORD, 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 an 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 candle: the LORD my God will enlighten 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 mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
  • Ps 9:13 : 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble 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 captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
  • Lam 5:1 : 1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 A light to lighten 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 give thee light.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.