詩編 13:3

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span data-lang="jpn" data-trans="kyb" data-ref="psa.13.1" class="versetxt"> 1 主よ、いつまでなのですか。とこしえにわたしをお忘れになるのですか。いつまで、み顔をわたしに隠されるのですか。2 いつまで、わたしは魂に痛みを負い、ひねもす心に悲しみをいだかなければならないのですか。いつまで敵はわたしの上にあがめられるのですか。3 わが神、主よ、みそなわして、わたしに答え、わたしの目を明らかにしてください。さもないと、わたしは死の眠りに陥り、4 わたしの敵は「わたしは敵に勝った」と言い、わたしのあだは、わたしの動かされることによって喜ぶでしょう。5 しかしわたしはあなたのいつくしみに信頼し、わたしの心はあなたの救を喜びます。6 主は豊かにわたしをあしらわれたゆえ、わたしは主にむかって歌います。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Consider: Psalms 9:13, Psalms 25:19, Psalms 31:7, Psalms 119:153, Lamentations 5:1

lighten: Psalms 18:28, 1 Samuel 14:27, 1 Samuel 14:29, Ezra 9:8, Luke 2:32, Revelation 21:23

lest: Jeremiah 51:39, Jeremiah 51:57, Ephesians 5:14

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 6:40 - my God Psalms 7:1 - O Psalms 17:6 - incline Psalms 19:8 - enlightening Psalms 21:4 - asked Psalms 34:5 - and were Psalms 38:16 - For I said Psalms 54:2 - General Psalms 76:5 - they Psalms 94:17 - dwelt Proverbs 29:13 - Lord

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 notwithstanding all his darkness, desertions, and afflictions; and entreats him to "consider" his affliction and trouble, and deliver him out of it; to consider his enemies, how many and mighty they were; and his own weakness his frame, that he was but dust, and unable to stand against them: or to "look" u upon his affliction, and upon him under it, with an eye of pity and compassion; to have respect to him and to his prayers, and to turn unto him, and lift up the light of his countenance upon him: and so this petition is opposed to the complaint in Psalms 13:1; and he further requests that he would "hear" him; that is, so as to answer him, and that immediately, and thereby show that he had not forgotten him, but was mindful of him, of his love to him, and covenant with him;

lighten mine eyes: meaning either the eyes of his body, which might be dim and dull through a failure of the animal spirits, by reason of inward grief, outward afflictions, or for want of bodily food; which when obtained refreshes nature, cheers the animal spirits, enlightens or gives a briskness to the eyes; see 1 Samuel 14:27; or else the eyes of his understanding, Ephesians 1:18; that he might behold wondrous things in the law of God, know the things which were freely given to him of God, see more clearly his interest in him, and in the covenant of his grace, and have his soul refreshed and comforted with the light of God's countenance; and he be better able to discern his enemies, and guard against them; and be directed to take the best method to be delivered and secured from them. The people of God are sometimes in the dark, and see no light; especially when benighted, and in sleepy frames; and it is God's work to enlighten and quicken them;

lest I sleep [the sleep] of death; a natural death w, which is comparable to sleep, and often expressed by it; and which sense agrees with lightening the eyes of his body, as before explained; or rather the sense is, lift up the light of thy countenance, revive thy work in the midst of the years; let me see thy goodness in the land of the living, that I may not faint and sink and die away. Or it may be an eternal death is designed; for though true believers shall never die this death, yet they may be in such circumstances, as through unbelief to fear they shall. The Targum paraphrases the word thus;

"enlighten mine eyes in thy law, lest I sin, and sleep with those who are guilty of death.''

u הביטה "intuere", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "aspice", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius. w χαλκεον υπνον, Homer. Iliad. 11. v. 241. "ferreus somnus", Virgil. Aeneid. 10. v. 745, & 12. v. 309.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 he would regard his wants - that he would attend to his cry. So we pray to one who turns away from us as if he were not disposed to hear, and as if he cared nothing about us.

Lighten mine eyes - The allusion here is, probably, to his exhaustion, arising from trouble and despair, as if he were about to die. The sight grows dim as death approaches; and he seemed to feel that death was near. He says that unless God should interpose, the darkness would deepen, and he must die. The prayer, therefore, that God would “enlighten his eyes,” was a prayer that he would interpose and save him from that death which he felt was rapidly approaching.

Lest I sleep the sleep of death - literally, “Lest I sleep the death;” that is, “in” death, or, as in the common version, the sleep of death. The idea is, that death, whose approach was indicated by the dimness of vision, was fast stealing over him as a sleep, and that unless his clearness of vision were restored, it would soon end in the total darkness - the deep and profound sleep - of death. Death is often compared to sleep. See the note at 1 Corinthians 11:30; the note at John 11:11, John 11:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:14; Daniel 12:2. The resemblance between the two is so obvious as to have been remarked in all ages, and the comparison is found in the writings of all nations. It is only, however, in connection with Christianity that the idea has been fully carried out by the doctrine of the resurrection, for as we lie down at night with the hope of awaking to the pursuits and enjoyments of a new day, so the Christian lies down in death with the hope of awaking in the morning of the resurrection to the pursuits and enjoyments of a new and eternal day. Everywhere else death is, to the mind, a long and unbroken sleep. Compare Jeremiah 51:39, Jeremiah 51:57.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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, I die eternally. O Lord my God, consider this; hear and answer, for thy name's sake.