Psalms 13:3
They have all gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully; the venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Grief and unhappiness are in their ways; and the way of peace, they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
In Context
4Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread?
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:29And Jonathan said: “My father has troubled the land. You have seen for yourselves that my eyes were brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
Psalms 5:1Unto the end. For her who pursues the inheritance. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 31:7You are my refuge from the tribulation that has surrounded me. You are my exultation: rescue me from those who are surrounding me.
Jeremiah 51:39In their heat, I will give them a drink, and I will inebriate them, so that they become drowsy, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and do not rise up, says the Lord.
Lamentations 5:1Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 13:2-6
David's Complaints and Prayers Turned into Praises. 1 How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord ? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved. 5 But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall… Read the whole commentary →