Parallel Verses

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?

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?

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?

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Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 13:2

Images Psalm 13:2

Prayers for Psalm 13:2

Context Readings

A Plea For Deliverance

1 Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me? 2 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? 3 Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;


Cross References

1 Samuel 18:29

And Saul's fear of David became all the greater, and he went on hating him, day by day.

1 Samuel 24:19

If a man comes across his hater, will he let him get away safe? so may you be rewarded by the Lord for what you have done for me today.

Nehemiah 2:2

And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;

Esther 7:6

And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.

Job 7:12-15

Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

Job 9:19-21

If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

Job 9:27-28

If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

Job 10:15

That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.

Job 23:8-10

See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

Psalm 7:2

So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

Psalm 7:4-5

If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

Psalm 8:2

You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.

Psalm 9:6

You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.

Psalm 10:18

To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

Psalm 22:7-8

I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

Psalm 31:18

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

Psalm 42:4

Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

Psalm 42:9-10

I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

Psalm 44:14-16

Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

Psalm 74:10

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Psalm 74:18

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

Psalm 77:2-12

In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

Psalm 94:18-19

If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

Psalm 116:3

The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 142:4-7

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

Jeremiah 8:18

Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

Jeremiah 45:3

You said, Sorrow is mine! for the Lord has given me sorrow in addition to my pain; I am tired with the sound of my sorrow, and I get no rest.

Lamentations 1:5

Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

Lamentations 1:9

In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.

Micah 7:8-10

Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

Matthew 26:38

Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.

Luke 22:53

When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.

John 16:6

But your hearts are full of sorrow because I have said these things.

Romans 9:2

That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

Philippians 2:27

For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

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