Psalm 13:2

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Psalm 13:2

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Summary

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

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Sorrow

Enemy

Exalted

General references

Job 23:8

Psalm 74:10

Matthew 5:4

Bible References

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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.

When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

Look on my right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.

Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

If we speak of strength, lo, he is mighty! And if of justice, Who,'saith he , will summon me?

If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook , as waters that fail?

Sorrow

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

The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

And the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.

A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for Jehovah hath added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.

Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.

But because I have spoken these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.

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

for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Enemy

Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.

From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about.

How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.

For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore Jehovah reward thee good for that which thou hast done unto me this day.

And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me.

Exalted

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head,'saying ,

Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

General references

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;

How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.