Psa 13:3-4 | NETfull | STEP | Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God! Revive me, or else I will die!

Psalms 13:3-4

3 Look at me! ^{▼▼ Heb “see.”} Answer me, O Lord my God!
Revive me, ^{▼▼ 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.} or else I will die! ^{▼▼ 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.”}
4 Then ^{▼▼ Heb “or else.”} my enemy will say, “I have defeated him!”
Then ^{▼▼ Heb “or else.”} my foes will rejoice because I am upended.