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 loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

Look on the right hand and see; 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?

Be it a question of strength, lo, he is strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?

If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction; --

Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? It refuseth to be healed. Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a treacherous spring, as waters that fail?

Sorrow

For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me.

The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:

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

A joyful heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.

My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me!

Thou didst say, Woe unto me! for Jehovah hath added grief to my sorrow; I am weary with my sighing, and I find no rest.

Then he says to them, My soul is very sorrowful even unto death; remain here and watch with me.

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

that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Enemy

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

O enemy! destructions are ended for ever. Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished.

To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more.

From the wicked that destroy me, my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn 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 thou hast done to me this day.

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

Her impurity was in her skirts, she remembered not her latter end; and she came down wonderfully: she hath no comforter. Jehovah, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: though I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah shall 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 become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

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

Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

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

When I was day by day with you in the temple ye did not stretch out your hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness.

General references

Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;

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

Blessed they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.