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詩編 13:2

span data-lang="jpn" data-trans="kyb" data-ref="psa.13.1" class="versetxt"> 1 主よ、いつまでなのですか。とこしえにわたしをお忘れになるのですか。いつまで、み顔をわたしに隠されるのですか。2 いつまで、わたしは魂に痛みを負い、ひねもす心に悲しみをいだかなければならないのですか。いつまで敵はわたしの上にあがめられるのですか。3 わが神、主よ、みそなわして、わたしに答え、わたしの目を明らかにしてください。さもないと、わたしは死の眠りに陥り、4 わたしの敵は「わたしは敵に勝った」と言い、わたしのあだは、わたしの動かされることによって喜ぶでしょう。5 しかしわたしはあなたのいつくしみに信頼し、わたしの心はあなたの救を喜びます。6 主は豊かにわたしをあしらわれたゆえ、わたしは主にむかって歌います。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Suffering;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Sorrow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Vine;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Betimes;   Enemy;   Heart;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Love;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for October 11;  

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

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.


 
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