Psalms 132:4 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 132:4

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

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ASV

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine eyelids;

WEB

I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,

YLT

If I give sleep to mine eyes, To mine eyelids--slumber,

DBT

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, slumber to mine eyelids,

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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3 verses on the floor

Proverbs 6:4
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Ruth 3:18
Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.
Genesis 24:33
And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

This vow is not elsewhere recorded. It expresses, in strong language, David's intense desire to see the establishment of God's worship as well as of His kingdom. remember David--literally, "remember for David," that is, all his troubles and anxieties on the matter.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

1 , Then David said, This is the house of the Lord ); and perhaps it was upon occasion of that judgment that he made this vow, being apprehensive that one of God's controversies with him was for his dilatoriness in this matter.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 132:4RUT 3:18 PSA 37:3-5
PSA 132:4PRO 6:4 ECC 9:10
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 132:4PRO 6:4 PRO 6:10-11
PSA 132:4RUT 3:18 ISA 28:16
PSA 132:4PRO 6:4 MRK 13:35-36
PSA 132:4RUT 3:18 ISA 30:7
PSA 132:4GEN 24:33 PSA 132:3-5
PSA 132:4GEN 24:33 1TI 6:2

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