Psalm 13 Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

A Plea for Deliverance

For the choir director. A psalm of David.

13 How long, Lord? Will you forget me for ever?
How long will you hide your face from me?^(A)
²How long will I store up anxious concerns^[a] within me,
agony in my mind every day?
How long will my enemy dominate me?^(B)

³Consider me and answer, Lord my God.
Restore brightness to my eyes;^(C)
otherwise, I will sleep in death.
⁴My enemy will say, ‘I have triumphed over him,’
and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.^(D)

⁵But I have trusted in your faithful love;^(E)
my heart will rejoice in your deliverance.^(F)
⁶I will sing to the Lord
because he has treated me generously.^(G)

Footnotes

13:2 Or up counsels

Cross references

13:1 : Jb 13:24; Ps 44:24; 89:46
13:2 : Ps 6:3; 38:6; 42:9
13:3 : Ezr 9:8; Ps 19:8; Pr 29:13
13:4 : Ps 89:42
13:5 : Ps 52:8
13:5 : Ps 9:14
13:6 : Ps 119:17; 142:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised (CSBA)