the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 13:1
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How long, O Yahweh? Will You forget me forever?How long will You hide Your face from me?
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord ? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?Howe long wylt thou forget me O God, for euer? howe long wilt thou hyde thy face from me?
To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. Until when will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? Until when will You hide Your face from me?
To the director: A song of David.
How long will you forget me, Lord ? Will you forget me forever? How long will you refuse to accept me?<
[To the chiefe Musician. A Psalme of Dauid.] How long wilt thou forget mee (O Lord) for euer? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
How longe wilt thou forget me, o LORDE? for euer? how longe wilt thou hyde thy face fro me?
A David Psalm Long enough, God — you've ignored me long enough. I've looked at the back of your head long enough. Long enough I've carried this ton of trouble, lived with a stomach full of pain. Long enough my arrogant enemies have looked down their noses at me.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, O Yahweh? will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
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?
For the music director; a psalm of David.
How long, Lord , will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?(A psalm by David for the music leader.)
How much longer, Lord , will you forget about me? Will it be forever? How long will you hide?For the leader. A psalm of David:
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for euer? howe long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
HOW long, O LORD, wilt thou forsake me? For ever? How long wilt thou turn away thy face from me?
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
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For the Leader. A Psalm of David.
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
O Lord , how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me? for ever? how long wilt thou turn away thy face from me?
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
To the leader. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord ? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?(12-1) Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?
For the music director. A psalm of David.
How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord ? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?How long, LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
For the director of music. A psalm of David.
How long will you forget me, Lord ? Forever? How long will you hide from me?How much longer will you forget me, Lord ? Forever? How much longer will you hide yourself from me?
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
Lord , how long will You forget me? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?The title of the twelfthe salm. To the victorie of Dauid.
To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
am 3464, bc 540 - Title chief. or, overseer.
How: Psalms 6:3, Psalms 35:17, Psalms 74:1, Psalms 80:4, Psalms 85:5, Psalms 89:46, Psalms 90:14, Psalms 94:3, Psalms 94:4
forget: Psalms 10:12, Lamentations 5:20
wilt thou hide: Psalms 22:1, Psalms 22:2, Deuteronomy 31:17, Job 13:24, Isaiah 59:2
Reciprocal: Job 7:19 - How long Job 19:2 - How long Job 23:8 - General Job 34:29 - when he hideth Psalms 22:11 - Be not Psalms 27:9 - Hide Psalms 30:7 - thou Psalms 42:9 - Why hast Psalms 44:24 - Wherefore Psalms 55:2 - I mourn Psalms 69:3 - I am Psalms 69:17 - hide Psalms 70:5 - O Lord Psalms 74:10 - General Psalms 74:23 - Forget Psalms 77:7 - the Lord Psalms 79:5 - How long Psalms 88:14 - hidest Psalms 102:2 - Hide Psalms 139:6 - knowledge Psalms 143:7 - Hear me Isaiah 26:8 - desire Isaiah 49:14 - my Lord Isaiah 54:8 - I hid Jeremiah 15:18 - my pain Habakkuk 1:2 - how Matthew 5:4 - General Luke 18:7 - though Revelation 6:10 - How
Cross-References
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord , the everlasting God.
So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.
And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beersheba.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever?.... When God does not immediately deliver his people from their enemies, or help them out of an affliction; when he does not discover his love, communicate his grace, apply the blessings and promises of his covenant as usual; and when he does not visit them in his usual manner, and so frequently as he has formerly done, they are ready to conclude he has forgotten them; and sometimes this continues long, and then they fear they are forgotten for ever; and this they cannot bear, and therefore expostulate with God in a querulous manner, as the psalmist does here; but this is to be understood not in reality, but in their own apprehension, and in the opinion of their enemies; God never does nor can forget his people; oblivion does not fall upon him with respect to common persons and things; and much less with respect to his own dear children, for whom a special book of remembrance is written;
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how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? his love, and the manifestation of it, from his person; his gracious presence, the light of his smiling countenance, which sometimes God hides or withdraws from his people by way of resentment of their unbecoming carriage to him; and which is very distressing to them, for they are apt to imagine it is in wrath and hot displeasure, when he still loves them, and will with everlasting kindness have mercy on them; see Isaiah 8:17. The Targum renders it, "the glory of thy face".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? - literally, “until when.” The psalmist breaks out into this cry “in the midst” of his troubles. He had apparently borne them as long as he could. It seemed as if they would never come to an end. We may presume that he had been patient and uncomplaining; that he had borne his trials long with the hope and belief that they would soon terminate; that he had waited patiently for deliverance, uttering no words of complaint; but now he begins to despair. He feels that his troubles will never end. He sees no prospect of deliverance; no signs or tokens that God would interpose; and he breaks out, therefore, in this language of tender complaint, as if he was utterly forsaken, and would be forever. The mind, even of a good man, is not unfrequently in this condition. He is borne down with troubles. He has no disposition to murmur or complain. He bears all patiently and long. He hopes for relief. He looks for it. But relief does not come; and it seems now that his troubles never will terminate. The darkness deepens; his mind is overwhelmed; he goes to God, and asks - not with complaining or murmuring, but with feelings bordering on despair - whether these troubles never will cease; whether he may never hope for deliverance.
Forever? - He had been forgotten so long, and there appeared to be so little prospect of deliverance, that it seemed as if God never would return and visit him with mercy. The expression denotes a state of mind on the verge of despair.
How long - Referring to a second aspect or phase of his troubles. The first was, that he seemed to be “forgotten.” The second referred to here is, that God seemed to hide his face from him, and he asked how long this was to continue.
Wilt thou hide thy face from me - Favour - friendship - is shown by turning the face benignantly toward one; by smiling upon him; in Scriptural language, by “lifting up the light of the countenance” upon one. See the note at Psalms 4:6. Aversion, hatred, displeasure, are shown by turning away the countenance. God seemed to the psalmist thus to show marks of displeasure toward him, and he earnestly asks how long this was to continue.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
PSALM XIII
This Psalm contains the sentiments of an afflicted soul that
earnestly desires succour from the Lord. The psalmist complains
of delay, 1-3;
prays for light and comfort, because he finds himself on the
brink of death, 3;
dreads the revilings of his enemies, 4;
anticipates a favourable answer, and promises thanksgiving,
5, 6.
NOTES ON PSALM XIII
There is nothing particular in the inscription. The Psalm is supposed to have been written during the captivity, and to contain the prayers and supplications of the distressed Israelites, worn out with their long and oppressive bondage.
Verse Psalms 13:1. How long wilt thou forget me — The words עד אנה ad anah, to what length, to what time, translated here how long? are four times repeated in the two first verses, and point out at once great dejection and extreme earnestness of soul.
Hide thy face from me? — How long shall I be destitute of a clear sense of thy approbation?
