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, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

Sorrow

The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;

A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

You said, Sorrow is mine! for the Lord has given me sorrow in addition to my pain; I am tired with the sound of my sorrow, and I get no rest.

Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.

But your hearts are full of sorrow because I have said these things.

That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

Enemy

So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.

You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

And Saul's fear of David became all the greater, and he went on hating him, day by day.

If a man comes across his hater, will he let him get away safe? so may you be rewarded by the Lord for what you have done for me today.

And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.

In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.

Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

Exalted

I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.

General references

See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.