Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

How long will I store up anxious concerns within me,
agony in my mind every day?
How long will my enemy dominate me?

International Standard Version

How long must I struggle in my soul at night and have sorrow in my heart during the day? How long will my enemy rise up against me?

A Conservative Version

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

American Standard Version

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Amplified


How long must I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart day after day?
How long will my enemy exalt himself and triumph over me?

Bible in Basic English

How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

Julia Smith Translation

How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou wholly forget me? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

How long must I take counsel in my soul, [and] sorrow in my heart [all the] day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

Modern King James verseion

How long shall I take counsel in my heart having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall my enemy be lifted up over me?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

How long shall I seek counsel in my soul, and be so vexed in my heart? How long shall mine enemies triumph over me?

NET Bible

How long must I worry, and suffer in broad daylight? How long will my enemy gloat over me?

New Heart English Bible

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

The Emphasized Bible

How long shall I lay up cares within my soul, sorrow in my heart, day by day? How long shall mine enemy lift himself up over me?

Webster

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

World English Bible

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

Youngs Literal Translation

Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow in my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me?

Topics

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 13:2

Images Psalm 13:2

Prayers for Psalm 13:2

Context Readings

A Plea For Deliverance

1 {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Cross References

1 Samuel 18:29

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

1 Samuel 24:19

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.

Nehemiah 2:2

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.

Esther 7:6

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

Job 7:12-15

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

Job 9:19-21

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

Job 9:27-28

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,

Job 10:15

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; --

Job 23:8-10

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

Psalm 7:2

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

Psalm 7:4-5

If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;)

Psalm 8:2

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

Psalm 9:6

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

Psalm 10:18

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

Psalm 17:9

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

Psalm 22:7-8

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

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Psalm 38:17

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

Psalm 42:4

These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude.

Psalm 42:9-10

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 44:14-16

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

Psalm 74:10

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

Psalm 74:18

Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name.

Psalm 77:2-12

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.

Psalm 94:18-19

When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

Psalm 116:3

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

Psalm 123:3-4

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

Psalm 142:4-7

Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.

Psalm 143:3-4

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.

Proverbs 15:13

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

Ecclesiastes 5:17

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

Jeremiah 8:18

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

Jeremiah 15:18

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?

Jeremiah 45:3

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.

Lamentations 1:5

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.

Lamentations 1:9

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.

Micah 7:8-10

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.

Matthew 26:38

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

Luke 22:53

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.

John 16:6

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

Romans 9:2

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

Philippians 2:27

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.

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