Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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 Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I seek counsel in my soul, and be so vexed in my heart? How long shall mine enemies triumph over me?
Cross References
Job 13:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Psalm 89:46
LORD, how long wilt thou hide thyself? Forever? And shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalm 10:12
Arise, O LORD God, and lift up thine hand; forget not the poor.
Psalm 44:24
Wherefore hidest thou thy face? Wilt thou clean forget our misery and oppression?
Lamentations 5:20
Wherefore wilt thou still forget us, and forsake us so long?
Deuteronomy 31:17
And then my wrath will wax hot against them, and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them, and they shall be consumed. And when much adversity and tribulation is come upon them, then they will say, 'Because our God is not among us,
Psalm 6:3
My soul also is sore troubled; but LORD, how long wilt thou punish me?
Psalm 22:1-2
{To the Chanter, upon Aijeleth of the dawning, a Psalm of David} My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint?
Psalm 35:17
LORD, how long wilt thou look upon this? O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me, and my darling from the lions.
Psalm 74:1
{An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture?
Psalm 80:4
O LORD God of Hosts, how long wilt thou be angry over the prayer of thy people?
Psalm 85:5
Wilt thou be displeased at us forever? Wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another?
Psalm 90:14
O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon: so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.
Psalm 94:3-4
LORD, how long shall the ungodly, how long shall the ungodly triumph?
Isaiah 59:2
But your misdeeds have separated you from your God, and your sins hide his face from you, that he heareth you not.