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Lighten mine eyes; either,
1. Because I find my counsel insufficient, Psa_13:2, 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 Psa_19:8 Eph_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 Job_15:22 17:13 30:26, and by an enlightening of the eyes, as Ezr_9:8. Compare Pro_15:30 29:13.
Lest I sleep the sleep of death, i.e. lest I sink under my burden and die; for death is oft called a sleep in Scripture, as Job_3:13 14:12 Psa_76:5 Joh_11:11.