Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
To the overseer; chanting of David.
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?
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?
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 To the overseer; chanting of David. 2 How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou wholly forget me? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Cross References
Job 13:24
Why wilt thou hide thy face, and reckon me for an enemy to thee?
Psalm 89:46
How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself forever? Shall thy wrath burn as fire?
Psalm 10:12
Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thine hand: thou wilt not forget the poor.
Psalm 44:24
Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression?
Lamentations 5:20
Wherefore wilt thou forget us forever? wilt thou forsake us to length of days?
Deuteronomy 31:17
And my anger was kindled against him in that day, and I forsook them, and I hid my face from them, and he was for consuming, and many evils finding him, and afflictions, and he said in that day, Is it not because God is not in the midst of me these evils find us?
Psalm 6:3
My soul trembled exceedingly: and thou, O Jehovah, how long?
Psalm 22:1-2
To the overseer upon the first place of the dawn; chanting of David. My God, my God, wherefore forsookest thou me? far off from my salvation the words of my groaning.
Psalm 35:17
O Jehovah, how long wilt thou see? Turn back my soul from their destruction, my only one from the lions.
Psalm 74:1
Understanding to Asaph. Wherefore, O God, didst thou reject forever? will thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy feeding?
Psalm 80:4
O Jehovah, God of armies, how long didst thou smoke against the prayer of thy people?
Psalm 85:5
Wilt thou be angry with us forever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to generation and generation?
Psalm 90:14
Satisfy us in the morning with thy mercy, and we shall rejoice and be glad in all our days.
Psalm 94:3-4
How long shall the unjust, O Jehovah, how long shall the unjust exult?
Isaiah 59:2
But your iniquities were separating between you and between your God, and your sins caused to hide;the face from you from hearing.