{"id":17,"date":"2025-02-21T18:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/?p=17"},"modified":"2025-04-01T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:16:00","slug":"psalm-13-lighten-my-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 13 &#8211; Lighten My Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cHow long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?\u201d These powerful words from Psalm 13 reflect the deep cries of a weary soul\u2014yet they also remind us of the faithfulness of God even in our darkest moments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This cinematic music video takes you on an emotional journey from despair to trust, mirroring David\u2019s heartfelt plea in Psalm 13. If you\u2019ve ever felt abandoned, lost, or overwhelmed, let this song remind you: God hears, God sees, and God is faithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Lighten My Eyes | A Cinematic Psalm 13 Music Video | Christian Rock | Christus Dominus Studios\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5k0RyTpTyZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.<br>1 How long, LORD?<br>Will you forget me forever?<br>How long will you hide your face from me?<br>2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul,<br>having sorrow in my heart every day?<br>How long shall my enemy triumph over me?<br>3 Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God.<br>Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;<br>4 lest my enemy say, \u201cI have prevailed against him;\u201d<br>lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.<br>5 But I trust in your loving kindness.<br>My heart rejoices in your salvation.<br>6 I will sing to the LORD,<br>because he has been good to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?\u201d These powerful words from Psalm 13 reflect the deep cries of a weary soul\u2014yet they also remind us of the faithfulness of God even in our darkest moments. This cinematic music video takes you on an emotional journey from despair to trust, mirroring David\u2019s heartfelt plea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christus-dominus-studios-music-ministry","category-reimagined-psalms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christusdominus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}