Psaumes 132:4

Louis Segond

Je ne donnerai ni sommeil à mes yeux, Ni assoupissement à mes paupières.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Si je donne du sommeil à mes yeux, du repos à mes paupières;

Darby's French Translation
je permets à mes yeux de dormir, à mes paupières de sommeiller,

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Si je donne du sommeil à mes yeux, [si je laisse] sommeiller mes paupières,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

give sleep: Genesis 24:33, Ruth 3:18, Proverbs 6:4

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, [or] slumber to mine eyelids. Not that he never would or did take any sleep till this thing was brought about he had so much at heart; but that he could not and would not suffer himself to sleep comfortably and quietly because of it. Aben Ezra interprets it of sleep at noon; the phrases express his great desire and solicitude to have this affair accomplished, and his eager and diligent pursuit of it; see Proverbs 6:4; of the eager desire of Christ to suffer and die for his people, that they might be brought near to God, and be his dwelling place, see Luke 12:50.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will not give sleep to mine eyes ... - There is no difference here between the words sleep and slumber. The meaning is, that the house of the Lord should be his first care.