Psalms 13:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַד־אָ֣נָה יְ֭הוָה תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֣נִי נֶ֑צַח עַד־אָ֓נָה ׀ תַּסְתִּ֖יר אֶת־פָּנֶ֣יךָ מִמֶּֽנִי

Transliteration

Until-when YHWH tiškāḥēnî neṣaḥ until-when tastîr ʾet-pānêkā from-me

Grammar Details

• עַד־אָ֣נָה: interrogative phrase 'until when/how long' - repeated for emphasis
• *YHWH*: divine name, tetragrammaton
• *tiškāḥēnî*: 2nd person masculine singular imperfect verb with 1st person singular suffix - you will forget me
• *neṣaḥ*: masculine singular noun - perpetuity/forever
• *tastîr*: 2nd person masculine singular hiphil imperfect verb - you will hide
• *ʾet*-*pānêkā*: direct object marker with masculine plural noun ('face') with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your face
• מִמֶּֽנִי: preposition מן ('from') with 1st person singular suffix - from me

Word Meanings

• *tiškāḥēnî*: forget me/neglect me/ignore me
• *neṣaḥ*: forever/eternally/completely/continuously
• *tastîr*: hide/conceal/cover
• *pānêkā*: your face/your presence/your favor

Referenced Verses

• Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me. 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, [and] I shall behold his righteousness. 10 Then [she that is] mine enemy shall see [it], and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
• Matt 26:38 : 38 Then saith he unto them, ‹My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.›
• Luke 22:53 : 53 ‹When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.›
• John 16:6 : 6 ‹But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.›
• Rom 9:2 : 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
• Phil 2:27 : 27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
• 1 Sam 18:29 : 29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.
• 1 Sam 24:19 : 19 For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
• Neh 2:2 : 2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why [is] thy countenance sad, seeing thou [art] not sick? this [is] nothing [else] but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
• Esth 7:6 : 6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy [is] this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
• Job 7:12-15 : 12 [Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
• Job 9:19-21 : 19 If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]? 20 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: [if I say], I [am] perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. 21 [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
• Job 9:27-28 : 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]: 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
• Job 10:15 : 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and [if] I be righteous, [yet] will I not lift up my head. [I am] full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
• Job 23:8-9 : 8 ¶ Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold [him]: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see [him]: 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
• Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while [there is] none to deliver.
• Ps 7:4-5 : 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
• Ps 8:2 : 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
• Ps 9:6 : 6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
• Ps 10:18 : 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
• Ps 17:9 : 9 From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass me about.
• Ps 22:7-8 : 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying], 8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
• Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
• Ps 38:17 : 17 For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.
• Ps 42:4 : 4 When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
• Ps 42:9-9 : 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 10 [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
• Ps 44:14-16 : 14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 15 My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, 16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
• Ps 74:10 : 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
• Ps 74:18 : 18 ¶ Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
• Ps 77:2-9 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. 10 And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the most High. 11 ¶ I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. 12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
• Ps 94:18-19 : 18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
• Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.
• Ps 142:4-7 : 4 ¶ I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, but [there was] no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. 5 I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my refuge [and] my portion in the land of the living. 6 Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I. 7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
• Ps 143:3-4 : 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
• Prov 15:13 : 13 ¶ A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
• Eccl 5:17 : 17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
• Jer 8:18 : 18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.
• Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, [which] refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, [and as] waters [that] fail?
• Jer 45:3 : 3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
• Lam 1:5 : 5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
• Lam 1:9 : 9 Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified [himself].