Psalm 13
Christian Standard Bible
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
- 13:2 Or up counsels
Isaiah 41:9-13
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9 I brought[a] you from the ends of the earth
and called you from its farthest corners.
I said to you: You are my servant;
I have chosen you; I haven’t rejected you.(A)
10 Do not fear, for I am with you;(B)
do not be afraid, for I am your God.(C)
I will strengthen you; I will help you;
I will hold on to you with my righteous right hand.(D)
11 Be sure that all who are enraged against you
will be ashamed and disgraced;(E)
those who contend with you
will become as nothing and will perish.
12 You will look for those who contend with you,
but you will not find them.
Those who war against you
will become absolutely nothing.
13 For I am the Lord your God,(F)
who holds your right hand,
who says to you, “Do not fear,
I will help you.
Footnotes
- 41:9 Or seized
2 Corinthians 1:3-11
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The God of Comfort
3 Blessed be(A) the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies(B) and the God of all comfort.(C) 4 He comforts us in all our affliction,[a] so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as the sufferings(D) of Christ(E) overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.(F) 6 If we are afflicted,(G) it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.(H) 7 And our hope(I) for you is firm, because we know that as you share(J) in the sufferings, so you will also share in the comfort.
8 We don’t want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our affliction that took place in Asia.(K) We were completely overwhelmed—beyond our strength(L)—so that we even despaired(M) of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God(N) who raises(O) the dead. 10 He has delivered(P) us from such a terrible death,(Q) and he will deliver us. We have put our hope in him that he will deliver us again 11 while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our[b] behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.
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