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Prayer for Help in Affliction.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. |
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1 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me forever?
How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
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2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
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3 Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God:
Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
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The sleep of death – A condition of peaceful unconsciousness. HG726:4
Dr. Trench says of this word sleep, "The reality of death is not denied, but only the fact implicitly assumed that death will be followed by a resurrection, as sleep is followed by an awakening." R2617:5
Heaven is not a sleeping place, but a place of joyful activity and life. Neither could we imagine mankind as sleeping in a Catholic purgatory or a Protestant hell. R5060:1
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4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him;
Lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
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5 But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness;
My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
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6 I will sing unto Jehovah,
Because he hath dealt bountifully with me. |
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