Parallel Verses
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?
New American Standard Bible
Having
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
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?
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?
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?
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 13:2
Prayers for Psalm 13:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Deliverance
1 How long, O 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, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the'sleep of death;
Names
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 which thou hast done unto me this day.
Nehemiah 2:2
And the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.
Esther 7:6
And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid 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
If we speak of strength, lo, he is mighty! And if of justice, Who,'saith he , will summon me?
Job 9:27-28
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my'sad countenance, and be of good cheer;
Job 10:15
If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.
Job 23:8-10
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;
Psalm 7:2
Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Psalm 7:4-5
If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)
Psalm 8:2
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established strength, Because of thine adversaries, That thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Psalm 9:6
The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.
Psalm 10:18
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.
Psalm 17:9
From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that 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 be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
Psalm 38:17
For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.
Psalm 42:4
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.
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 blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psalm 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed 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 lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
Psalm 116:3
The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalm 123:3-4
Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalm 142:4-7
Look on my right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.
Psalm 143:3-4
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Proverbs 15:13
A glad 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 he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.
Jeremiah 8:18
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook , as waters that fail?
Jeremiah 45:3
Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for Jehovah hath added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.
Lamentations 1:5
Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
Lamentations 1:9
Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Micah 7:8-10
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me.
Matthew 26:38
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
Luke 22:53
When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
John 16:6
But because I have spoken these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
Romans 9:2
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Philippians 2:27
for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.