Psalm 13:3 {12:3}
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How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Consider

Psalm 9:13 Have mercy on me, O Lord: see my humiliation which I suffer from my enemies.

Psalm 25:19 Consider my enemies for they are multiplied, and have hated me with an unjust hatred.

Psalm 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.

Psalm 119:153 See my humiliation and deliver me for I have not forgotten thy law.

Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.

lighten

Psalm 18:28 For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.

1 Samuel 14:27,29 But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people: and he put forth the end of the rod, which he had in his hand, and dipt it in a honeycomb: and he carried his hand to his mouth, and his eyes were enlightened. . . .

Ezra 9:8 And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made before the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his holy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would give us a little life in our bondage.

Luke 2:32 A light to the revelation of the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel.

Revelation 21:23 And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

less

Jeremiah 51:39,57 In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord. . . .

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

Context
How Long, O LORD?
2How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day? 3How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?4Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten my eyes, that I never sleep in death:…
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:29
And Jonathan said: My father hath troubled the land: you have seen yourselves that my eyes are enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey:

Ezra 9:8
And now as a little, and for a moment has our prayer been made before the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant, and give us a pin in his holy place, and that our God would enlighten our eyes, and would give us a little life in our bondage.

Job 33:30
That he may withdraw their souls from corruption, and enlighten them with the light of the living.

Psalm 5:1
Unto the end, for her that obtaineth the inheritance. A psalm for David. [2] Give ear, O Lord, to my words, understand my cry.

Psalm 18:28
For thou lightest my lamp, O Lord: O my God, enlighten my darkness.

Psalm 27:7
Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have mercy on me and hear me.

Proverbs 29:13
The poor man and the creditor have met one another: the Lord is the enlightener of them both.

Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.

Lexicon
See me
הַבִּ֣יטָֽה (hab·bî·ṭāh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5027: To scan, look intently at, to regard

[and] respond,
עֲ֭נֵנִי (‘ă·nê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6030: To answer, respond

O LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

my God.
אֱלֹהָ֑י (’ĕ·lō·hāy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

Give light
הָאִ֥ירָה (hā·’î·rāh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 215: To be or become light

to my eyes,
עֵ֝ינַ֗י (‘ê·nay)
Noun - cdc | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

lest
פֶּן־ (pen-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 6435: Removal, lest

I sleep
אִישַׁ֥ן (’î·šan)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3462: To be slack, languid, sleep, to grow old, stale, inveterate

in death,
הַמָּֽוֶת׃ (ham·mā·weṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin


Additional Translations
See me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the'sleep of death;

Look on me, hearken to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;

Consider and answer me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,
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