# Look at me and answer me

"Give me your attention and listen to me"

# Give light to my eyes

This is a way of asking for strength. AT: "Make me strong again" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

# or I will sleep in death

To "sleep in death" means to die. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])

# Do not let my enemy say ... so that my enemy may not say

"Do not let my enemy say about me ... so that my enemy may not say about me"

# when I am brought down

"when I fall" or "when they defeat me"