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 sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would acknowledge me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you set a watch over me?

If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of justice, who shall set me a time to plead?

If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, yet can I not lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; therefore see my 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 refuses to be healed? will you be altogether unto me as a deceitful brook, and as waters that fail?

Sorrow

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

The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pangs of sheol got hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Therefore the king said unto me, Why is your countenance sad, seeing you are not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very much afraid,

A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

You did say, Woe is me now! for the LORD has added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

Then said he unto them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death: tarry you here, and watch with me.

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

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

For indeed he was sick near unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should 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 infants have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

O you enemy, destructions are come to an everlasting end: and you have destroyed cities; their memory is perished with them.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who surround me.

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

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

For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? therefore the LORD reward you with good for what you have done unto me this day.

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

Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembers not her latter end; therefore she came down awesomely: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself.

Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD 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 be put to silence; who speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Her adversaries have become the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

When I was daily with you in the temple, you stretched forth no 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:

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

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