Psalm 13 - Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Psalm 13

A Plea for Deliverance

For the choir director. A psalm of David.

1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?(A)
2 How long will I store up anxious concerns[a] within me,
agony in my mind every day?
How long will my enemy dominate me?(B)

3 Consider me and answer, Lord my God.
Restore brightness to my eyes;(C)
otherwise, I will sleep in death.
4 My enemy will say, “I have triumphed over him,”
and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.(D)

5 But I have trusted in your faithful love;(E)
my heart will rejoice in your deliverance.(F)
6 I will sing to the Lord
because he has treated me generously.(G)

Footnotes

  1. 13:2 Or up counsels

Cross references

  1. 13:1 : Jb 13:24; Ps 44:24; 89:46
  2. 13:2 : Ps 6:3; 38:6; 42:9
  3. 13:3 : Ezr 9:8; Ps 19:8; Pr 29:13
  4. 13:4 : Ps 89:42
  5. 13:5 : Ps 52:8
  6. 13:5 : Ps 9:14
  7. 13:6 : Ps 119:17; 142:7