the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 13:2
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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?
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?
Howe long shall I seke counsayle in my soule, and be so vexed in mine heart euery day? howe long shall myne enemie triumph ouer me?
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
Until when shall I set counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? Until when shall my enemy be lifted up over me?
How long must I wonder if you have forgotten me? How long must I feel this sadness in my heart? How long will my enemy win against me?
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
How long shall I take counsel in my soule, hauing sorrow in my heart dayly? how long shall mine enemie be exalted ouer me?
Oh how loge shall I seke councell in my soule? how longe shall I be so vexed in my herte? how longe shal myne enemie triumphe ouer me?
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?
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?
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?
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
How long must I worry, and suffer in broad daylight? How long will my enemy gloat over me?
How long must I be confused and miserable all day? How long will my enemies keep beating me down?
How long, Adonai ? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
How long shall I take counsell within my selfe, hauing wearinesse dayly in mine heart? how long shall mine enemie be exalted aboue me?
How long shall I keep sorrow in my soul and misery in my heart daily? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
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?
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
How long, O LORD, wilt Thou forget me for ever? How long wilt Thou hide Thy face from me?
How long must I struggle with anguish in my soul, with sorrow in my heart every day? How long will my enemy have the upper hand?
How long must I plan what to do in my soul, and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will those who hate me rise above me?
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
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?
How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
How long must I bear pain in my soul, and have sorrow in my heart all day long? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
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?
(12-2) How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day?
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?
How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
How long am I to feel anxious in my soul, With grief in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
How long must I worry and feel sad in my heart all day? How long will my enemy win over me?
How long must I endure trouble? How long will sorrow fill my heart day and night? How long will my enemies triumph over me?
How long will I store up anxious concerns within me, agony in my mind every day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
Hou long schal Y sette counsels in my soule; sorewe in my herte bi dai?
Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow inn my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me?
How long must I bear pain in my soul, and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
take: Psalms 77:2-12, Psalms 94:18, Psalms 94:19, Psalms 142:4-7, Job 7:12-15, Job 9:19-21, Job 9:27, Job 9:28, Job 10:15, Job 23:8-10, Jeremiah 15:18
sorrow: Psalms 38:17, Psalms 116:3, Nehemiah 2:2, Proverbs 15:13, Ecclesiastes 5:17, Jeremiah 8:18, Jeremiah 45:3, Matthew 26:38, John 16:6, Romans 9:2, Philippians 2:27
enemy: Psalms 7:2, Psalms 7:4, Psalms 7:5, Psalms 8:2, Psalms 9:6, Psalms 10:18, Psalms 17:9, Psalms 74:10, Psalms 74:18, 1 Samuel 18:29, 1 Samuel 24:19, Esther 7:6, Lamentations 1:9, Micah 7:8-10
exalted: Psalms 22:7, Psalms 22:8, Psalms 31:18, Psalms 42:10, Psalms 44:14-16, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, Psalms 143:3, Psalms 143:4, Lamentations 1:5, Luke 22:53
Reciprocal: Psalms 6:3 - how Psalms 25:2 - let not Psalms 30:7 - thou Psalms 35:17 - how Psalms 55:2 - I mourn Psalms 70:5 - O Lord Psalms 77:7 - the Lord Psalms 79:5 - How long Psalms 89:46 - How Isaiah 26:8 - desire Habakkuk 1:2 - how Luke 18:7 - though
Cross-References
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
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 Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How long shall I take counsel in my soul,.... Or "put it" s; to take counsel of good men and faithful friends, in matters of moment and difficulty, is safe and right; and it is best of all to take counsel of God, who is wonderful in it, and guides his people with it; but nothing is worse than for a man to take counsel of his own heart, or only to consult himself; for such counsel often casts a man down, and he is ashamed of it sooner or later: but this seems not to be the sense here; the phrase denotes the distressing circumstances and anxiety of mind the psalmist was in; he was at his wits' end, and cast about in his mind, and had various devises and counsels formed there; and yet knew not what way to take, what course to steer;
[having] sorrow in my heart daily; by reason of God's hiding his face from him; on account of sin that dwelt in him, or was committed by him; because of his distance from the house of God, and the worship and ordinances of it; and by reason of his many enemies that surrounded him on every side: this sorrow was an heart sorrow, and what continually attended him day by day; or was in the daytime, when men are generally amused with business or diversions, as well as in the night, as Kimchi observes;
how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? even the vilest of men,
Psalms 12:8; this may be understood either of temporal enemies, and was true of David when he was obliged not only to leave his own house and family, but the land of Judea, and flee to the Philistines; and when he fled from Absalom his son, lest he should be taken and slain by him; or of spiritual enemies, and is true of saints when sin prevails and leads captive, and when the temptations of Satan succeed; as when he prevailed upon David to number the people, Peter to deny his master, &c. The Jewish writers t observe that here are four "how longs", answerable to the four monarchies, Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman, and their captivities under them.
s אשית "ponam", Pagninus, Montanus, Munster, Vatablus. t Jarchi, Midrash in Kimchi, & Abendana in Miclol Yophi in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
How long - This refers to the third aspect of the case, or the third phase of the trouble, that is, that he was perplexed and embarrassed, having a deep and heavy sorrow in his heart, and he asks how long this was to continue. “Shall I take counsel in my soul.” This refers to the methods which he endeavored to devise to escape from trouble. He was perplexed, persecuted, and apparently forsaken; and being thus apparently forsaken, he was constrained to attempt to devise some plan for his own deliverance, without interposition or help from on high. He was under a necessity of relying on himself; and he asks “how long” this was to continue, or when he might hope that God would interpose to aid him by his counsels, and thus to deliver him.
Having sorrow in my heart daily - Every day; constantly. That is, there was no intermission to his troubles. The sorrow in his heart seems to have been not merely that which was caused by troubles from without, but also that which sprang from the painful necessity of attempting to form plans for his own relief - plans which seemed to be in vain.
How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? - This is the fourth form or phase of his trouble, and he asks how long this was to continue. This clause suggests perhaps the exact form of the trial. It was that which arose from the designs of an enemy who persecuted and oppressed the psalmist, and who had done it so effectually that he seemed to have triumphed over him, or to have him completely in his power. All the other forms of the trial - the fact that he seemed to be forgotten; that God had apparently averted his face; that he was left to form plans of deliverance which seemed to be vain, were connected with the fact here adverted to, that an enemy had persecuted him, and had been suffered to gain a triumph over him. Who this enemy was we do not know.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 13:2. Take counsel in my soul — I am continually framing ways and means of deliverance; but they all come to naught, because thou comest not to my deliverance. When a soul feels the burden and guilt of sin, it tries innumerable schemes of self-recovery; but they are all useless. None but God can speak peace to a guilty conscience.
Mine enemy be exalted — Satan appears to triumph while the soul lies under the curse of a broken law.
