Parallel Verses

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?

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?

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?

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 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me? 3 Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Cross References

1 Samuel 18:29

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

1 Samuel 24:19

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

Nehemiah 2:2

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.

Esther 7:6

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 you put a guard over me?

Job 9:19-21

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

Job 9:27-28

If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

Job 10:15

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.

Job 23:8-10

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

Psalm 7:2

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

Psalm 7:4-5

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

Psalm 8:2

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

Psalm 9:6

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

Psalm 10:18

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.

Psalm 17:9

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

Psalm 22:7-8

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

Psalm 31:18

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

Psalm 38:17

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

Psalm 42:4

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

Psalm 42:9-10

I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

Psalm 44:14-16

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

Psalm 74:10

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

Psalm 74:18

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Psalm 77:2-12

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 94:18-19

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

Psalm 116:3

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

Psalm 123:3-4

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

Psalm 142:4-7

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.

Psalm 143:3-4

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.

Proverbs 15:13

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

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has 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 refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

Jeremiah 45:3

You said, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has 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 Yahweh has 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 didn't remember her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.

Micah 7:8-10

Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

Matthew 26:38

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

Luke 22:53

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

John 16:6

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

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