Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 13:3

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

Either 1. Because I find my Counsel insufficient, v. 2. do thou enlighten my mind, and guide me by thy Counsel and Spirit into the right way of obtaining thy Mercy and Help. So this Phrase is used Psal. 19. 8. [illegible: 1+ letters]ph. 1. 18. Or 2. Do thou revive and comfort, and deliver me from the darkness of Death, which is ready to come upon me and to close mine Eyes. Nothing is more common than to express great Dangers and Calamities by Darkness, and great Comforts and Deliverances by Light, as Iob 15. 22. and 17. 13. and 30. 26. and by an enlightening of the Eyes, as Ezra. 9. 8. Comp. Prov. 15▪ 30. and 29. 13.

(i. e.) Lest I sink under my Burthen and die: for Death is oft called a Sleep in Scripture, as Iob. 3. 13. and 14. 12. Psal. 76. 5. Iohn 11. 11.

Marginal references: Psal. 38. 10▪