It is profitable when our complaints lead to prayer. That affliction, be it what it may, which leads to Jesus is blessed. Jesus himself, being in an agony, prayed more earnestly. Oh! how very sweet and sanctified is it, to trace the manhood of Jesus in his footsteps going before us. Luke 22:44.
Verse Psalms 13:3. _CONSIDER_ AND _HEAR ME_] Rather, _answer me_. I have prayed; I am seeking thy face I am lost without thee; I am in darkness; my life draws nigh to destruction; if I die unforgiven,...
CONSIDER AND HEAR ME - literally, “Look, hear me.” God had seemed to avert his face as if he would not even look upon him Psalms 13:1; and the psalmist now prays that he “would” look upon him - that h...
Psalms 13 _ 1. How long? Answer me, Jehovah (Psalms 13:1)_ 2. The victory of faith (Psalms 13:5) Psalms 13:1. Four times “How long?” The tria
XIII. A PRAYER IN DISTRESS WITH CONFIDENCE OF FINAL VICTORY. Psalms 13:2. Read, How long must I bear affliction on my soul? (Psalms 13:2_ a_) and in the same verse day and night (LXX, in some codices...
HEAR. answer. LIGHTEN MINE EYES. Revive me. SLEEP THE SLEEP OF DEATH. sleep my last sleep. Hebrew Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6....
Behold (Psalms 10:14), instead of hiding Thy face, answer me (Psalms 3:4) instead of forgetting my need. _Lighten mine eyes_ Revive and quicken me. The eyes are the index of vital energy. They -waste...
A prayer, in calmer tone....
LIGHTEN MINE EYES— The meaning of this phrase may perhaps be best judged of by Jonathan's speech, 1 Samuel 14:29 for he, being very hungry and ready to faint, dipped his rod in an honeycomb, and ate o...
PSALMS 13 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Sorely Tried Believer in Jehovah Expostulates, Entreats, and Ultimately Exults. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 13:1-2, Expostulation; Stanza II., Psalms 13:3-4, Entreaty;...
_CONSIDER AND HEAR ME, O LORD MY GOD: LIGHTEN MINE EYES, LEST I SLEEP THE SLEEP OF DEATH;_ Prayer follows complaint the believer's case. Instead of complaints against God to man, the believer brings...
of the Messianic hope in Psalms 2, 20, 28, 40. The following Pss. are either quoted from or distinctly referred to in NT.: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18, 22, 24, 32, 34, 40, 41. In several instances the...
LIGHTEN MINE EYES] give me new life and hope. 'Dying eyes are glazed: a sick man's are heavy and dull. Returning health brightens them': see 1 Samuel 14:27; 1 Samuel 14:29....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
LIGHTEN. — Literally, _give light to my eyes that I may not go to sleep in death, i.e.,_ go to sleep and never wake; “sleep unto death,” as the LXX. (Comp. for the nature of the fear, Psalms 6:5; and...
_[Psalms 13:4]_ הַבִּ֣יטָֽה עֲ֭נֵנִי יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהָ֑י הָאִ֥ירָה...
Psalms 13:1 THIS little psalm begins in agitation, and ends in calm. The waves run high at first, but swiftly sink to rest, and at last lie peacefully glinting in sunshine. It falls into three strophe...
THE BOUNTY OF GOD AND THE FOLLY OF MEN Psalms 13:1; Psalms 14:1 The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline persecutions, 1 Samuel 19:1. Four times the persecuted soul cries, _How long...
This little psalm is very full of beauty as it traces the way by which many a tried and, tempest-tossed soul has found consolation and strength. First of all, there is the cry almost of despair. Foes...
Unprofitable. Without faith in Christ, none have meritorious works. (Worthington) --- Not one. Such was the condition of the world before Christ, as all were born in sin. "No one," says St. Augustine,...
3._Look upon me, answer me. _As when God does not promptly afford assistance to his servants, it seems to the eye of sense that he does not behold their necessities, David, for this reason, asks God,...
In Psalms 13 the righteous is reduced to the lowest point of distress as far as evil from men goes. It is as if God had entirely and definitely forgotten him. His enemy was exalted over him, and he ta...
CONSIDER [AND] HEAR ME, O LORD MY GOD,.... The psalmist amidst all his distresses rightly applies to God by prayer, claims his interest in him as his covenant God, which still continued notwithstandin...
Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death; Ver. 3. _Consider and hear me, O Lord my God_] He turns him to God in this peck of trouble (for they seldo...
_Lighten mine eyes_ Because I find my own counsels insufficient, do thou enlighten my mind, and guide me by thy counsel into the right way of obtaining thy merciful help. Or, he means, Do thou revive,...
Consider and hear me, O Lord, my God, paying attention to his plight, giving him an answer upon his appeal; LIGHTEN MINE EYES, making them clear, giving them new vitality and cheerfulness in view of t...
A PRAYER FOR RELIEF IN THE MIDST OF TROUBLE. David may well apply as a type, so far as his experience during the persecution by Saul is concerned, to the believing sufferer and Christian martyr of ev...
LIGHTEN MINE EYES; either, 1. Because I find my counsel insufficient, PSALMS 13:2, do thou enlighten my mind, and guide me by thy counsel and Spirit into the right way of obtaining thy mercy and help....
Psalms 13:3 Consider H5027 (H8685) hear H6030 (H8798) LORD H3068 God H430 Enlighten H215 (H8685) eyes...
‘Consider, answer me, O YHWH my God: Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; Lest my adversaries rejoice when I am moved. Yet the situatio...
Psalms 13:1. _How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine e...
CONTENTS: Prayer for deliverance from enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: The believer's desires often turn to impatience, for days seem long when the soul is cast down, but because God's f...
REFLECTIONS. This psalm was Israel's plaintive song in the time of trouble. It eased their hearts in captivity, that a bright morning would break, and chase their night away; that God would make darkn...
_Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death._ MORAL AND SPIRITUAL DEATH The Psalmist’s cry was for a physical deliverance from mortal danger--probably from a violent death at the hands of his...
_How long wilt Thou forget me, O Lord?_ DISTRESS AND CONFIDENCE This little Psalm begins in agitation and ends in calm. However true it is that sorrow is “but for a moment,” it seems to last for an e...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 13:1. This is an individual lament. The worshiper is on the verge of despair. ⇐...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 13:3 For God to CONSIDER AND ANSWER would be for him to relieve the singer’s circumstances. ⇐...
INTRODUCTION “In this psalm we see a servant of God, long and sorely tried by the persecutions of unrelenting enemies, and, as it seems to himself, forgotten and forsaken of God, pouring out the agony...
EXPOSITION THE writer—again, according to the title, David—is reduced almost to utter despair. He has undergone lengthened persecution—the Divine countenance has been turned away from him (Psalms 13:1...
The thirteenth psalm, to the chief musician. Psalm of David. How long will thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long will thou hide your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, havin...
1 Samuel 14:27; 1 Samuel 14:29; Ephesians 5:14; Ezra 9:8; Jeremiah 5
Lighten — Revive and comfort, and deliver me from the darkness of death, which is ready to come upon me....