Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
New American Standard Bible
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord? Will You
How long
King James Version
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Holman Bible
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
Forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
International Standard Version
How long? LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
A Conservative Version
How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?
American Standard Version
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Amplified
How long will You hide Your face from me?
Bible in Basic English
Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?
Darby Translation
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Julia Smith Translation
To the overseer; chanting of David.
King James 2000
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?
Modern King James verseion
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
NET Bible
For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?
New Heart English Bible
How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
The Emphasized Bible
How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou wholly forget me? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Webster
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
World English Bible
How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Youngs Literal Translation
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?
Themes
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » Sometimes prolonged
veiled Deity » God spoken of as hiding himself
divine Delays » Try men's courage and patience
Prayer » For miscellaneous topics relating to the devotional life, » Answer delayed
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 13:1
Prayers for Psalm 13:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Deliverance
1 How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I take counsel in my soul, [and] sorrow in my heart [all the] day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
Cross References
Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
Psalm 89:46
How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire [forever]?
Psalm 10:12
Rise up, O Yahweh; O God, lift up your hand. Do not forget [the] afflicted.
Psalm 44:24
Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?
Lamentations 5:20
Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us {for so long}?
Deuteronomy 31:17
And {my anger shall flare up against them} on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall find them, and they shall say on that day, '[Is it] not because our God is not in our midst [that] these disasters have found us?'
Psalm 6:3
My soul is also very terrified. But you, O Yahweh, how long?
Psalm 22:1-2
My God, my God why have you forsaken me? [Why are you] far from helping me, [far from] the words of my groaning?
Psalm 35:17
My Lord, how long will you watch? Restore my life from their ravages, my only [life] from [the] young lions.
Psalm 74:1
Why, O God, have you rejected [us] forever? [Why] does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalm 80:4
O Yahweh God [of] hosts, {how long will you be angry} against the prayer of your people?
Psalm 85:5
Will you be angry against us forever? Will you prolong your anger generation after generation?
Psalm 90:14
Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Psalm 94:3-4
How long [will the] wicked, O Yahweh, how long will [the] wicked exult?
Isaiah 59:2
Rather, your iniquities have been {barriers} between you and your God, and your sins have hidden [his] face from you, from hearing.