Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou wholly forget me? How long wilt thou hide thy 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?
Lexham Expanded Bible
How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me 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?
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, wilt thou wholly forget me? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I lay up cares within my soul, sorrow in my heart, day by day? How long shall mine enemy lift himself up over me?
Cross References
Job 13:24
Wherefore, thy face, shouldst thou hide? Or count me, as an enemy to thee?
Psalm 89:46
How long, O Yahweh, Wilt thou hide thyself utterly? Shall thine indignation, burn like fire?
Psalm 10:12
Arise! Yahweh! O GOD! raise thy hand, - Do not forget the patient!
Psalm 44:24
Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?
Lamentations 5:20
Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?
Deuteronomy 31:17
Then will mine anger kindle upon them in that day, and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them and they shall be consumed, and many calamities and misfortunes shall find them out, - and they will say, in that day, Is it not because my God is not in my midst, that these calamities have found me out?
Psalm 6:3
Yea, my soul, is dismayed greatly, Thou, then, O Yahweh - how long?
Psalm 22:1-2
My GOD, my GOD, why hast thou forsaken me? Far from saving me, The words of my loud lamentation?
Psalm 35:17
My Lord! how long wilt thou look on? Bring back my soul out of their raging, from among lions, my solitary self.
Psalm 74:1
Wherefore, O God, hast thou cast off utterly? Shall thine anger smoke against the flock of thine own pasturing?
Psalm 80:4
O Yahweh, God of hosts! How long hast thou been wroth with the prayer of thy people?
Psalm 85:5
To times age-abiding, wilt thou be angry with us? Wilt thou prolong thine anger, from generation to generation?
Psalm 90:14
Satisfy us, in the morning, with thy lovingkindness, That we may shout aloud and be glad, Throughout all our days.
Psalm 94:3-4
How long shall the lawless, O Yahweh, How long shall the lawless exult?
Isaiah 59:2
But, your iniquities, have become separators betwixt you and your God, And your sins, have caused a biding of face from you that he should-not hear.