Psalms 13:1 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 13:1

How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

KJV

How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

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Commentary

3 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2310: “Howling Changed To Singing” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1893)

THIS is a very short Psalm, there are only six verses in it, but what a change there is between the beginning and the end of it! The first two verses are dolorous to the deepest degree, but the last verse is joyful to the highest degree. David begins many of his Psalms sighing and ends them singing, so that I do not wonder that Peter Moulin says, "One would think that those Psalms had been composed by two men of a contrary humor." If I were asked, "Are there two men here, or is there only one?"

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(1.) God's unkindness; so he construed it, and it was his infirmity. He thought God had forgotten him, had forgotten his promises to him, his covenant with him, his former lovingkindness which he had shown him and which he took to be an earnest of further mercy, had forgotten that there was such a man in the world, who needed and expected relief and succour from him.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 1 (1869)

"How long?" This question is repeated no less than four times. It betokens very intense desire for deliverance, and great anguish of heart. And what if there be some impatience mingled therewith; is not this the more true a portrait of our own experience? It is not easy to prevent desire from degenerating into impatience. O for grace that, while we wait on God, we may be kept from indulging a murmuring spirit! "How long?" Does not the oft-repeated cry become a very howling? And what if grief should find no other means of utterance?

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
אָ֣נָה	'A.nah	when?	H575 →
יְ֭הוָה	Yah.weh	O Yahweh	H3068 →
תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֣נִי	tish.ka.Che.ni	will you forget me	H7911 →
נֶ֑צַח	Ne.tzach	perpetuity	H5331 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
אָ֓נָה׀	'A.nah	when?	H575 →
תַּסְתִּ֖יר	tas.Tir	will you hide	H5641 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
פָּנֶ֣יךָ	pa.Nei.kha	face your	H6440 →
מִמֶּֽנִּי׃	mi.Me.ni	from me	H4480 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 89:46
How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
leads to
- Psalms 79:5
  How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 78:63
  Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
Through
Lamentations 5:20
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
leads to
- Psalms 44:24
  Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 14:19–21
  Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of…
Through
Job 13:24
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
leads to
- Psalms 88:14
  Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Job 19:11
  His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.
- Lamentations 2:5
  The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
- Deuteronomy 32:20
  He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms