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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 sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more?
⁸Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
¹⁰And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
¹¹I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
¹²I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. (Psa. 77:2‑12)

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Psa. 94:18‑19• ¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. (Psa. 94:18‑19)

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Psa. 142:4‑7• ⁴I 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.
⁵I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and 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 praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. (Psa. 142:4‑7)

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Job 7:12‑15• ¹²Am I a sea, or a whale, 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, and death rather than my life. (Job 7:12‑15)

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Job 9:19‑21,27‑28• ¹⁹If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
²⁰If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
²¹Though I were 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 heaviness, and comfort myself:
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 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 10:15)

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Job 23:8‑10• ⁸Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
⁹On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
¹⁰But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried 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, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail? (Jer. 15:18)

sorrow.

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

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Psa. 116:3• ³The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. (Psa. 116:3)

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Neh. 2:2• ²Wherefore 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, (Neh. 2:2)

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

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

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Jer. 8:18• ¹⁸When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. (Jer. 8:18)

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Jer. 45:3• ³Thou 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. (Jer. 45:3)

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Matt. 26:38• ³⁸Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. (Matt. 26:38)

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John 16:6• ⁶But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. (John 16:6)

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Rom. 9:2• ²That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. (Rom. 9:2)

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Phil. 2:27• ²⁷For 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. (Phil. 2:27)

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Psa. 7:2,4‑5• ²Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
⁴If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
⁵Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honor 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 ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. (Psa. 8:2)

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Psa. 9:6• ⁶O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them. (Psa. 9:6)

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Psa. 10:18• ¹⁸To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. (Psa. 10:18)

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

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Psa. 74:10,18• ¹⁰O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
¹⁸Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed 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 became 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 the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto 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 afraid before the king and the queen. (Esther 7:6)

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Lam. 1:9• ⁹Her 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. (Lam. 1:9)

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Mic. 7:8‑10• ⁸Rejoice 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.
⁹I 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.
¹⁰Then 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. (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,
⁸He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. (Psa. 22:7‑8)

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Psa. 31:18• ¹⁸Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. (Psa. 31:18)

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Psa. 42:10• ¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God? (Psa. 42:10)

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

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Psa. 123:3‑4• ³Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
⁴Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud. (Psa. 123:3‑4)

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Psa. 143:3‑4• ³For 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.
⁴Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. (Psa. 143:3‑4)

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Lam. 1:5• ⁵Her 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. 1:5)

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Luke 22:53• ⁵³When 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. (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?