Parallel Verses
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?
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 For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord? Will You
How long
Cross References
Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
Psalm 89:46
How long, O Jehovah? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger continue to burn like fire?
Psalm 10:12
Arise, O Jehovah! Lift your hand, O God. Do not forget oppressed people!
Psalm 44:24
Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our suffering and misery?
Lamentations 5:20
Why have we gone from your memory forever? Why have you turned away from us for so long?
Deuteronomy 31:17
My anger will be kindled against them in that day. I will abandon them and hide my face from them. They will be consumed by many evils and troubles. They will say in that day: 'Is it because our God is not among us that these evils have come upon us?'
Psalm 6:3
I am in anguish. How long, O Jehovah, how long?
Psalm 22:1-2
([Psalm of David]) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far away from my deliverance, so far away from the words of my moaning?
Psalm 35:17
O Jehovah, how long will you observe? Rescue me from their attacks. Rescue my precious life from the lions.
Psalm 74:1
([Psalm of Asaph]) God, why have you rejected us forever? Why do you smoke with anger against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalm 80:4
O Jehovah God, commander of armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Psalm 85:5
Will you be angry with us forever? Will you ever let go of your anger in the generations to come?
Psalm 90:14
Satisfy us every morning with your loving kindness so that we may sing for joy and rejoice all our days.
Psalm 94:3-4
O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked exult?
Isaiah 59:2
But your wrongs have separated you from your God. Your sins have made him hide his face so that he does not even hear you.