Psalms 13:2

World English Bible (2000)

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph 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 Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me. 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness. 10 Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
• Matt 26:38 : 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
• Luke 22:53 : 53 When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
• John 16:6 : 6 But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
• Rom 9:2 : 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
• Phil 2:27 : 27 For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
• 1 Sam 18:29 : 29 Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually.
• 1 Sam 24:19 : 19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.
• Neh 2:2 : 2 The king said to me, "Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart." Then I was very much afraid.
• Esth 7:6 : 6 Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
• Job 7:12-15 : 12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me? 13 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;' 14 then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions: 15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
• Job 9:19-21 : 19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?' 20 Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse. 21 I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.
• Job 9:27-28 : 27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;' 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
• Job 10:15 : 15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
• Job 23:8-9 : 8 "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him; 9 He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him. 10 But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.
• Ps 7:2 : 2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
• Ps 7:4-5 : 4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary), 5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
• Ps 8:2 : 2 From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.
• Ps 9:6 : 6 The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
• Ps 10:18 : 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.
• Ps 17:9 : 9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
• Ps 22:7-8 : 7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying, 8 "He trusts in Yahweh; let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him."
• Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
• Ps 38:17 : 17 For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.
• Ps 42:4 : 4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
• Ps 42:9-9 : 9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" 10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
• Ps 44:14-16 : 14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. 15 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face, 16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
• Ps 74:10 : 10 How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
• Ps 74:18 : 18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
• Ps 77:2-9 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. 4 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires: 7 "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more? 8 Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah. 10 Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High." 11 I will remember Yah's deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old. 12 I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.
• Ps 94:18-19 : 18 When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up. 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
• Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
• Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.
• Ps 142:4-7 : 4 Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul. 5 I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living." 6 Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me. 7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me. A Psalm by David.
• Ps 143:3-4 : 3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead. 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
• Prov 15:13 : 13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face; but an aching heart breaks the spirit.
• Eccl 5:17 : 17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
• Jer 8:18 : 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
• Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
• Jer 45:3 : 3 You said, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.
• Lam 1:5 : 5 Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.
• Lam 1:9 : 9 Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn't remember her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.