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 did not get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

When I said, "My foot is slipping." Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty. If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

"If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?"

Sorrow

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

The king said to me, "Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart." Then I was very much afraid.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

"Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow. My heart is faint within me.

'You said, "Woe is me now. For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest."'"

Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."

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

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

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

Enemy

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

From the lips of babes and infants you have ordained praise, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

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

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

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

For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may the LORD reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.

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 did not remember her latter end; therefore her fall was astonishing; she has no comforter. "Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself."

Do not rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.

Exalted

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

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

Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

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

When I was with you in the temple daily, you did not stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."

General references

"If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.