Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.
For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the Lord.
To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.
Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.
But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.
for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!
I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Look on my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget your law.
I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,
Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.
Be gracious to me, O Lord! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”
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