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

²⁸ For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.

⁸ 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.

³⁹ 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.

5 Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.