Psalms 13:3

Look at me! ¹  Answer me, O Lord my God! Revive me, ²  or else I will die! ³ 

1Sa 14:27,29; Ezr 9:8; Ps 9:13; Ps 18:28; Ps 25:19; Ps 31:7; Ps 119:153; Jer 51:39,57; La 5:1; Lu 2:32; Eph 5:14; Re 21:23

¹ tn Heb “see.”

² tn Heb “Give light [to] my eyes.” The Hiphil of אוּר (’ur), when used elsewhere with “eyes” as object, refers to the law of God giving moral enlightenment (Ps 19:8), to God the creator giving literal eyesight to all people (Prov 29:13), and to God giving encouragement to his people (Ezra 9:8). Here the psalmist pictures himself as being on the verge of death. His eyes are falling shut and, if God does not intervene soon, he will “fall asleep” for good.

³ tn Heb “or else I will sleep [in?] the death.” Perhaps the statement is elliptical, “I will sleep [the sleep] of death,” or “I will sleep [with the sleepers in] death.”