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Psa. 13:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Psa. 77:2‑12• ²In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak.
⁵I consider the days of old, the years of ancient times.
⁶I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart, and my spirit maketh diligent search.
⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
⁸Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath his word come to an end from generation to generation?
⁹Hath *God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
¹⁰Then said I, This is my weakness:--the years of the right hand of the Most High
¹¹Will I remember,--the works of Jah; for I will remember thy wonders of old,
¹²And I will meditate upon all thy work, and muse upon thy doings. (Psa. 77:2‑12)

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Psa. 94:18‑19• ¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
¹⁹In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul. (Psa. 94:18‑19)

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Psa. 142:4‑7• ⁴Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.
⁵I cried unto thee, Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
⁶Attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.
⁷Bring my soul out of prison, that I may celebrate thy name. The righteous shall surround me, because thou dealest bountifully with me. (Psa. 142:4‑7)

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Job 7:12‑15• ¹²Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?
¹³When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
¹⁴Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions;
¹⁵So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones. (Job 7:12‑15)

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Job 9:19‑21,27‑28• ¹⁹Be it a question of strength, lo, he is strong; and be it of judgment, who will set me a time?
²⁰If I justified myself, mine own mouth would condemn me; were I perfect, he would prove me perverse.
²¹Were I perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
²⁷If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,
²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. (Job 9:19‑21,27‑28)

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Job 10:15• ¹⁵If I were wicked, woe unto me! and righteous, I will not lift up my head, being so full of shame, and beholding mine affliction;-- (Job 10:15)

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Job 23:8‑10• ⁸Lo, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I do not perceive him;
⁹On the left hand, where he doth work, but I behold him not; he hideth himself on the right hand, and I see him not.
¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold. (Job 23:8‑10)

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Jer. 15:18• ¹⁸Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable? It refuseth to be healed. Wilt thou be altogether unto me as a treacherous spring, as waters that fail? (Jer. 15:18)

sorrow.

Psa. 38:17• ¹⁷For I am ready to halt, and my pain is continually before me. (Psa. 38:17)

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Psa. 116:3• ³The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow: (Psa. 116:3)

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Neh. 2:2• ²And the king said to me, Why is thy face sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sadness of heart. And I was very sore afraid. (Neh. 2:2)

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Prov. 15:13• ¹³A joyful heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken. (Prov. 15:13)

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Eccl. 5:17• ¹⁷All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation. (Eccl. 5:17)

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Jer. 8:18• ¹⁸My comfort in my sadness! my heart is faint in me! (Jer. 8:18)

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Jer. 45:3• ³Thou didst say, Woe unto me! for Jehovah hath added grief to my sorrow; I am weary with my sighing, and I find no rest. (Jer. 45:3)

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Matt. 26:38• ³⁸Then he says to them, My soul is very sorrowful even unto death; remain here and watch with me. (Matt. 26:38)

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John 16:6• ⁶But because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. (John 16:6)

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Rom. 9:2• ²that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart, (Rom. 9:2)

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Phil. 2:27• ²⁷for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. (Phil. 2:27)

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Psa. 7:2,4‑5• ²Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.
⁴If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;)
⁵Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take it, and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah. (Psa. 7:2,4‑5)

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Psa. 8:2• ²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger. (Psa. 8:2)

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Psa. 9:6• ⁶O enemy! destructions are ended for ever.--Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished. (Psa. 9:6)

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Psa. 10:18• ¹⁸To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more. (Psa. 10:18)

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Psa. 17:9• ⁹From the wicked that destroy me, my deadly enemies, who compass me about. (Psa. 17:9)

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Psa. 74:10,18• ¹⁰How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy contemn thy name for ever?
¹⁸Remember this, that an enemy hath reproached Jehovah, and a foolish people have contemned thy name. (Psa. 74:10,18)

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1 Sam. 18:29• ²⁹And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy continually. (1 Sam. 18:29)

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1 Sam. 24:19• ¹⁹For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore Jehovah reward thee good for that thou hast done to me this day. (1 Sam. 24:19)

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Esther 7:6• ⁶And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen. (Esther 7:6)

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Lam. 1:9• ⁹Her impurity was in her skirts, she remembered not her latter end; and she came down wonderfully: she hath no comforter. Jehovah, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself. (Lam. 1:9)

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Mic. 7:8‑10• ⁸Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: though I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah shall be a light unto me.
⁹I will bear the indignation of Jehovah--for I have sinned against him--until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light; I shall behold his righteousness.
¹⁰And mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is Jehovah thy God? Mine eyes shall behold her; now shall she be trodden down, as the mire of the streets. (Mic. 7:8‑10)

exalted.

Psa. 22:7‑8• ⁷All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying:
⁸Commit it to Jehovah--let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him! (Psa. 22:7‑8)

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Psa. 31:18• ¹⁸Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt. (Psa. 31:18)

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Psa. 42:10• ¹⁰As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God? (Psa. 42:10)

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Psa. 44:14‑16• ¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
¹⁵All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
¹⁶Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger. (Psa. 44:14‑16)

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Psa. 123:3‑4• ³Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. (Psa. 123:3‑4)

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Psa. 143:3‑4• ³For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
⁴And my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. (Psa. 143:3‑4)

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Lam. 1:5• ⁵Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the adversary. (Lam. 1:5)

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Luke 22:53• ⁵³When I was day by day with you in the temple ye did not stretch out your hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness. (Luke 22:53)

• The taking counsel in the heart is very natural, but not faith. It wears and distresses the spirit. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 12-15” by J.N. Darby)

• Under the pressure of the circumstances the soul turns in upon itself—taking counsel in its own soul apart from God. The weary reasonings of the mind bring no relief. (“Psalms 13” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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