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Psalms 13:1
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How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?How long will you hide your face from me?
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How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord ? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy 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?For the director of music. A psalm of David.
How long will you forget me, Lord ? Forever? How long will you hide 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?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?
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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 Yahweh? Will You forget me forever?How long will You hide Your 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?
(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 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?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?HOW long, O LORD, wilt thou forsake me? For ever? How long wilt thou turn away thy face from me?
How much longer will you forget me, Lord ? Forever? How much longer will you hide yourself 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 chief musician. A Psalm of David. Until when will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? Until when will You hide Your face from me?
How longe wilt thou forget me, o LORDE? for euer? how longe wilt thou hyde thy face fro 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 Leader. A Psalm of David.
[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?
Howe long wylt thou forget me O God, for euer? howe long wilt thou hyde thy 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?
The title of the twelfthe salm. To the victorie of Dauid.
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?
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?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
Abraham traveled from there south to the Negev and settled down between Kadesh and Shur. While he was camping in Gerar, Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She's my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her. But God came to Abimelech in a dream that night and told him, "You're as good as dead—that woman you took, she's a married woman." Now Abimelech had not yet slept with her, hadn't so much as touched her. He said, "Master, would you kill an innocent man? Didn't he tell me, ‘She's my sister'? And didn't she herself say, ‘He's my brother'? I had no idea I was doing anything wrong when I did this." God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know your intentions were pure, that's why I kept you from sinning against me; I was the one who kept you from going to bed with her. So now give the man's wife back to him. He's a prophet and will pray for you—pray for your life. If you don't give her back, know that it's certain death both for you and everyone in your family." Abimelech was up first thing in the morning. He called all his house servants together and told them the whole story. They were shocked. Then Abimelech called in Abraham and said, "What have you done to us? What have I ever done to you that you would bring on me and my kingdom this huge offense? What you've done to me ought never to have been done." Abimelech went on to Abraham, "Whatever were you thinking of when you did this thing?" Abraham said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place and that they'd kill me to get my wife. Besides, the truth is that she is my half sister; she's my father's daughter but not my mother's. When God sent me out as a wanderer from my father's home, I told her, ‘Do me a favor; wherever we go, tell people that I'm your brother.'" Then Abimelech gave Sarah back to Abraham, and along with her sent sheep and cattle and servants, both male and female. He said, "My land is open to you; live wherever you wish." And to Sarah he said, "I've given your brother a thousand pieces of silver—that clears you of even a shadow of suspicion before the eyes of the world. You're vindicated." Then Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his maidservants, and they started having babies again. For God had shut down every womb in Abimelech's household on account of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and worshiped God there, praying to the Eternal God. Abraham lived in Philistine country for a long time.
Joshua took the whole country: hills, desert, foothills, and mountain slopes, including all kings. He left no survivors. He carried out the holy curse on everything that breathed, just as God , the God of Israel, had commanded. Joshua's conquest stretched from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza and from the entire region of Goshen to Gibeon. Joshua took all these kings and their lands in a single campaign because God , the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
Achish would ask, "And whom did you raid today?" David would tell him, "Oh, the Negev of Judah," or "The Negev of Jerahmeel," or "The Negev of the Kenites." He never left a single person alive lest one show up in Gath and report what David had really been doing. This is the way David operated all the time he lived in Philistine country.
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?
