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Psalm 13.
About this passage.
The prayer moves through complaint, request, and trust. It offers an example of speaking honestly to God about distress without requiring the distress to disappear first.
The chapter at a glance.
The repeated question of how long God will seem absent gives voice to prolonged grief. The prayer ends by turning toward steadfast love and remembered goodness.
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- 1To 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?
- 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
- 3Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
- 4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
- 5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
- 6I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
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