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Psalms 13:2

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [Having] sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— How long shall I take counsel in my soul, with sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— How long shall I lay up cares within my soul, sorrow in my heart, day by day? How long shall mine enemy lift himself up over me?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow in my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— How long shall I take counsell within my selfe, hauing wearinesse dayly in mine heart? how long shall mine enemie be exalted aboue me?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— How long shall I take counsel in my soule, [hauing] sorrow in my heart dayly? how long shall mine enemie be exalted ouer me?
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— How long shall I keep sorrow in my soul and misery in my heart daily? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
How long x5704
(5704) Complement
עַד
`ad
{ad}
Properly the same as H5703 (used as a preposition, adverb or conjugation; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with).
x575
(0575) Complement
אָן
'an
{awn}
Contracted from H0370; where?; hence whither?, when?; also hither and thither.
shall I take 7896
{7896} Prime
שִׁית
shiyth
{sheeth}
A primitive root; to place (in a very wide application).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
counsel 6098
{6098} Prime
עֵצָה
`etsah
{ay-tsaw'}
From H3289; advice; by implication plan; also prudence.
in my soul, 5315
{5315} Prime
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
{neh'-fesh}
From H5314; properly a breathing creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental).
[having] sorrow 3015
{3015} Prime
יָגוֹן
yagown
{yaw-gohn'}
From H3013; affliction.
in my heart 3824
{3824} Prime
לֵבָב
lebab
{lay-bawb'}
From H3823; the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like H3820.
daily? 3119
{3119} Prime
יוֹמָם
yowmam
{yo-mawm'}
From H3117; daily.
how long x5704
(5704) Complement
עַד
`ad
{ad}
Properly the same as H5703 (used as a preposition, adverb or conjugation; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with).
x575
(0575) Complement
אָן
'an
{awn}
Contracted from H0370; where?; hence whither?, when?; also hither and thither.
shall mine enemy 341
{0341} Prime
אֹיֵב
'oyeb
{o-yabe'}
Active participle of H0340; hating; an adversary.
z8802
<8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Active (See H8814)
Count - 5386
be exalted 7311
{7311} Prime
רוּם
ruwm
{room}
A primitive root; to be high actively to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
over x5921
(5921) Complement
עַל
`al
{al}
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural, often with prefix, or as conjugation with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications.
me?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Psalms 13:2

_ _ The counsels or devices of his heart afford no relief.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 13:1-6.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 13:2

How long — Shall I be in such perplexities, not knowing what course to take?

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Psalms 13:2

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

(b) Changing my purposes as the sick man does his place.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
take:

Psalms 77:2-12 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. ... I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
Psalms 94:18-19 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. ... In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Psalms 142:4-7 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. ... 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.
Job 7:12-15 [Am] I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? ... So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.
Job 9:19-21 If [I speak] of strength, lo, [he is] strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time [to plead]? ... [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 9:27-28 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]: ... I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Job 10:15 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 23:8-10 Behold, I go forward, but he [is] not [there]; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: ... But he knoweth the way that I take: [when] he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Jeremiah 15:18 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?

sorrow:

Psalms 38:17 For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.
Psalms 116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Nehemiah 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,
Proverbs 15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Ecclesiastes 5:17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Jeremiah 8:18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.
Jeremiah 45:3 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.
Matthew 26:38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
John 16:6 But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
Romans 9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
Philippians 2:27 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.

enemy:

Psalms 7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while [there is] none to deliver.
Psalms 7:4-5 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:) ... 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.
Psalms 8:2 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.
Psalms 9:6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
Psalms 10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Psalms 17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass me about.
Psalms 74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Psalms 74:18 Remember this, [that] the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and [that] the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
1 Samuel 18:29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.
1 Samuel 24:19 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.
Esther 7:6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy [is] this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Lamentations 1:9 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].
Micah 7:8-10 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. ... 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.

exalted:

Psalms 22:7-8 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying], ... He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
Psalms 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalms 42:10 [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
Psalms 44:14-16 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. ... For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
Psalms 123:3-4 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ... Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, [and] with the contempt of the proud.
Psalms 143:3-4 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. ... Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Lamentations 1:5 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.
Luke 22:53 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.
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1S 18:29; 24:19. Ne 2:2. Es 7:6. Jb 7:12; 9:19, 27; 10:15; 23:8. Ps 7:2, 4; 8:2; 9:6; 10:18; 17:9; 22:7; 31:18; 38:17; 42:10; 44:14; 74:10, 18; 77:2; 94:18; 116:3; 123:3; 142:4; 143:3. Pv 15:13. Ec 5:17. Jr 8:18; 15:18; 45:3. Lm 1:5, 9. Mi 7:8. Mt 26:38. Lk 22:53. Jn 16:6. Ro 9:2. Php 2:27.

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