Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Considerand answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
WEB
Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
YLT
Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,
DBT
Consider, answer me, O Jehovah myGod! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — 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.