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3Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
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For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)David, in affliction, is here pouring out his soul before God; his address is short, but the method is very observable, and of use for direction and encouragement. I. His troubles extort complaints ( Ps. 13:1 , 2 ); and the afflicted have liberty to pour out their complaint before the Lord , Ps. 102:1 title . It is some ease to a troubled spirit to give vent to its griefs, especially to give vent…
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