God’s Word Translation
Psalms 13:1
1How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Psalms 13:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
- New International Version (NIV)How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- English Standard Version (ESV)How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- New King James Version (NKJV)How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Context of Psalms 13:1
How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2How long must I make decisions alone with sorrow in my heart day after day? How long will my enemy triumph over me? 3Look at me! Answer me, O Lord my God! Light up my eyes, or else I will die
Read all of Psalms 13Psalms 13:1 word by word
עַד־אָ֣נָה יְ֭הוָה תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֣נִי נֶ֑צַח עַד־אָ֓נָה׀ תַּסְתִּ֖יר אֶת־פָּנֶ֣יךָ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 13:1
- Psalms 6:3My soul has been deeply shaken with terror. But you, O Lord, how long … ?
- Psalms 35:17O Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue me from their attacks. Rescue my precious life from the lions.
- Psalms 74:1Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep in your care?
- Psalms 80:4O Lord God, commander of armies, how long will you smolder in anger against the prayer of your people?
- Psalms 85:5Will you be angry with us forever? Will you ever let go of your anger in the generations to come?
- Psalms 89:46How long, O Lord? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your anger continue to burn like fire?
- Psalms 90:14Satisfy us every morning with your mercy so that we may sing joyfully and rejoice all our days.
- Psalms 94:3How long, O Lord, will wicked people triumph? How long?
- Psalms 10:12Arise, O Lord! Lift your hand, O God. Do not forget oppressed people!
- Lamentations 5:20Why have you completely forgotten us? Why have you abandoned us for such a long time?
- Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far away from helping me, so far away from the words of my groaning?
- Deuteronomy 31:17On that day I will become angry with them. I will abandon them and turn away from them. They will be destroyed, and many terrible disasters will happen to them. On that day they will ask, ‘Haven’t these disasters happened to us because our God isn’t with us?’
- Job 13:24Why do you hide your face ⌞from me⌟ and consider me your enemy?
- Isaiah 59:2But your wrongs have separated you from your God, and your sins have made him hide his face so that he doesn’t hear you.
Commentaries on Psalms 13:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1How long wilt thou forget me - The words אנה עד 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?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1How 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The psalmist complains that God had long withdrawn. He earnestly prays for comfort. He assures himself of an answer of peace. --God sometimes hides his face, and leaves his own children in the dark concerning their interest in him: and this they lay to heart more than any outward trouble whatever. But anxious cares are heavy burdens with which believers often load themselves more than they need. The bread of sorrows is sometimes the saint's daily bread…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-2How long?: Repeating the question four times shows intense worry and deep pain (Psalm 79:5).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-61. The forms of expression and figure here used are frequent (compare Psa 9:12, 18; 10:11, 12). How long ... for ever--Shall it be for ever?Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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