Psalms 13:3
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
2How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day?
4Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes that I never sleep in death:
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:29And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land: you have seen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey:
Psalms 5:1Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm of David.
Psalms 18:28For thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down the eyes of the proud.
Psalms 31:7Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:
Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.
Lamentations 5:1Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
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 →