Psalms 13:3-4

13:3 Look at me! ¹  Answer me, O Lord my God!

Revive me, ²  or else I will die! ³ 

13:4 Then ⁴  my enemy will say, “I have defeated him!”

Then ⁵  my foes will rejoice because I am upended.

Isaiah 37:17

37:17 Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God! ⁶ 

Isaiah 37:20

37:20 Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.” ⁷ 

Daniel 9:17-19

9:17 “So now, our God, accept ⁸  the prayer and requests of your servant, and show favor to ⁹  your devastated sanctuary for your own sake. ¹⁰  9:18 Listen attentively, ¹¹  my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins ¹²  and the city called by your name. ¹³  For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, ¹⁴  but because your compassion is abundant. 9:19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.” ¹⁵ 

[13:3]  ¹ tn Heb “see.”

[13:3]  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.

[13:3]  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.”

[13:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “or else.”

[13:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “or else.”

[37:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “Hear all the words of Sennacherib which he sent to taunt the living God.”

[37:20]  ⁷ tn The parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:19 reads, “that you, Lord, are the only God.”

[9:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “hear.” Here the verb refers to hearing favorably, accepting the prayer and responding positively.

[9:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “let your face shine.” This idiom pictures God smiling in favor. See Pss 31:16; 67:1; 80:3, 7, 19.

[9:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for the sake of my Lord.” Theodotion has “for your sake.” Cf. v. 19.

[9:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “turn your ear.”

[9:18]  ¹² tn Heb “desolations.” The term refers here to the ruined condition of Judah’s towns.

[9:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “over which your name is called.” Cf. v. 19. This expression implies that God is the owner of his city, Jerusalem. Note the use of the idiom in 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1; Amos 9:12.

[9:18]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “praying our supplications before you.”

[9:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “for your name is called over your city and your people.” See the note on this expression in v 18.