Psalm 13:2

A Plea For Deliverance

¹ For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
² How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
³ Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
Enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

Be Exalted

How Long

In Me

Lifted Up

Day After Day

Jehovah

1 Samuel 18:29

then Saul was even more afraid of David. Thus Saul was David’s enemy continually.

1 Samuel 24:19

For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safely? May the Lord therefore reward you with good in return for what you have done to me this day.

Nehemiah 2:2

So the king said to me, “Why is your face sad though you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

Esther 7:6

Esther said, “A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.

Job 7:12-15

“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?

Job 9:19-21

“If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the strong one!
And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

Job 9:27-28

“Though I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
I will leave off my sad countenance and be cheerful,’

Job 10:15

‘If I am wicked, woe to me!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.

Job 23:8-10

“Behold, I go forward but He is not there,
And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

Psalm 7:2

Or he will tear my soul like a lion,
Dragging me away, while there is none to deliver.

Psalm 7:4-5

If I have rewarded evil to my friend,
Or have plundered him who without cause was my adversary,

Psalm 8:2

From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease.

Psalm 9:6

The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very memory of them has perished.

Psalm 10:18

To vindicate the orphan and the oppressed,
So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror.

Psalm 17:9

From the wicked who despoil me,
My deadly enemies who surround me.

Psalm 22:7-8

All who see me sneer at me;
They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying,

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak arrogantly against the righteous
With pride and contempt.

Psalm 38:17

For I am ready to fall,
And my sorrow is continually before me.

Psalm 42:4

These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Psalm 42:9-10

I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Psalm 44:14-16

You make us a byword among the nations,
A laughingstock among the peoples.

Psalm 74:10

How long, O God, will the adversary revile,
And the enemy spurn Your name forever?

Psalm 74:18

Remember this, O Lord, that the enemy has reviled,
And a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Psalm 77:2-12

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 94:18-19

If I should say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death encompassed me
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.

Psalm 123:3-4

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,
For we are greatly filled with contempt.

Psalm 142:4-7

Look to the right and see;
For there is no one who regards me;
There is no escape for me;
No one cares for my soul.

Psalm 143:3-4

For the enemy has persecuted my soul;
He has crushed my life to the ground;
He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.

Proverbs 15:13

A joyful heart makes a cheerful face,
But when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, sickness and anger.

Jeremiah 8:18

My sorrow is beyond healing,
My heart is faint within me!

Jeremiah 15:18

Why has my pain been perpetual
And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream
With water that is unreliable?

Jeremiah 45:3

‘You said, “Ah, woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and have found no rest.”’

Lamentations 1:5

Her adversaries have become her masters,
Her enemies prosper;
For the Lord has caused her grief
Because of the multitude of her transgressions;
Her little ones have gone away
As captives before the adversary.

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness was in her skirts;
She did not consider her future.
Therefore she has fallen astonishingly;
She has no comforter.
“See, O Lord, my affliction,
For the enemy has magnified himself!”

Micah 7:8-10

Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy.
Though I fall I will rise;
Though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.

Matthew 26:38

Then He *said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me.”

Luke 22:53

While I was with you daily in the temple, you did not lay hands on Me; but this hour and the power of darkness are yours.”

John 16:6

But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.

Romans 9:2

that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.

Philippians 2:27

For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.