Parallel Verses

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?

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?

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?

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

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 wilt thou forget me, O LORD? 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 daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider and hear me, O LORD 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 became David's enemy continually.

1 Samuel 24:19

For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

Nehemiah 2:2

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

Job 7:12-15

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

Job 9:19-21

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

Job 9:27-28

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

Job 10:15

If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou 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 he 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 is mine enemy:)

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

Psalm 9:6

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

Psalm 10:18

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

Psalm 17:9

From the wicked that oppress me, from 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 be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Psalm 38:17

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

Psalm 42:4

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept 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 heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Psalm 74:10

O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

Psalm 74:18

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

Psalm 77:2-12

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.

Psalm 94:18-19

When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

Psalm 116:3

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Psalm 123:3-4

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

Psalm 142:4-7

I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared 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 darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Proverbs 15:13

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

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Jeremiah 8:18

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

Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

Jeremiah 45:3

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

Lamentations 1:5

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

Lamentations 1:9

Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold 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, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

Matthew 26:38

Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

Luke 22:53

When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

John 16:6

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

Romans 9:2

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow 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, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

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