Psalm 77:4 {76:5}
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My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.

holdest

Psalm 6:6 I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.

Esther 6:1 That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,

Job 7:13-15 If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch: . . .

I am

Job 2:13 And they sat with him on the ground seven day and seven nights and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Job 6:3 As the sand of the sea, this would appear heavier: therefore, my words are full of sorrow:

Context
In The Day of Trouble I Sought the LORD
3I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away. 4My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.5I thought upon the days of old: and I had in my mind the eternal years.…
Cross References
Psalm 39:9
I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast done it.

Psalm 102:7
I have watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop.

Daniel 6:18
And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed from him.

Lexicon
You have kept
אָ֭חַזְתָּ (’ā·ḥaz·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 270: To grasp, take hold, take possession

my eyes
עֵינָ֑י (‘ê·nāy)
Noun - cdc | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

from closing;
שְׁמֻר֣וֹת (šə·mu·rō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 8109: Something guarded, an eye-lid

I am too troubled
נִ֝פְעַ֗מְתִּי (nip̄·‘am·tî)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6470: To tap, beat regularly, to impel, agitate

to speak.
אֲדַבֵּֽר׃ (’ă·ḏab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue


Additional Translations
You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.You hold my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

All mine enemies set a watch against me: I was troubled, and spoke not.

Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak.

Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Thou holdest my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not.
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