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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 distress I sought the Lord (Adonai);{HR}My hand was stretched out in the night and slacked not;{HR}My soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God and was disquieted;{HR}I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest mine eyes watching,{HR}I am troubled and cannot speak.
⁵I consider the days of old,{HR}The years of ancient times.
⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night;{HR}I commune with mine own heart,{HR}And my spirit maketh diligent search.
⁷Will the Lord cast off forever?{HR}And will he be favourable no more?
⁸Hath his mercy failed forever?{HR}Hath the word come to an end from generation to generation?
⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious?{HR}Or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
¹⁰And I said, This [is] mine infirmity:{HR}The years of the right hand of the Most High.
¹¹The deeds of Jah I will remember;{HR}For I will remember thy wonders of old.
¹²And I will meditate on all thy work{HR}And muse on thy doings. (Psa. 77:2‑12)

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

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Psa. 142:4‑7• ⁴Look on the right hand and see:{HR}There is none that knoweth me:{HR}Refuge hath failed me;{HR}There is none caring for my soul.
⁵I cried unto thee, Jehovah; I said,{HR}{i}Thou{/i} [art] my refuge,{HR}My portion in the land of the living.
⁶Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low;{HR}Deliver me from my persecutors,{HR}For they are stronger than I.
⁷Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks to thy name:{HR}The righteous shall compass me round,{HR}For thou dealest bountifully with me. (Psa. 142:4‑7)

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Job 7:12‑15• ¹²Am I a sea, or a monster,{HR}That thou settest guard over me?
¹³When I say, My bed shall comfort me,{HR}My couch shall ease my complaint,
¹⁴Then thou shakest me with dreams,{HR}And makest me tremble through visions of the night,
¹⁵So that my soul chooseth strangling,{HR}Death rather than these bones: I would not live on; (Job 7:12‑15)

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Job 9:19‑21,27‑28• ¹⁹If [I turn] to might, lo, [he is] strong,{HR}If to judicial trial, who will cite me?
²⁰If I justify myself, my mouth would condemn me.{HR}I perfect! He would prove me perverse.
²¹I perfect! should not know my own soul,{HR}I should despise my life.
²⁷If I say, I will forget my plaint,{HR}I will leave off my looks, and brighten up;
²⁸I shudder at all my sorrows,{HR}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 guilty, woe unto me!{HR}And righteous, I durst not raise my head,{HR}Filled with shame, and seeing my misery; (Job 10:15)

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Job 23:8‑10• ⁸Behold, I go eastward, but he is not there,{HR}And westward, but I cannot perceive him;
⁹To the north, where he worketh, but cannot behold [him];{HR}He veileth the south, and I see [him] not.
¹⁰But he knoweth the way, who is with me;{HR}He trieth me, as gold I come forth. (Job 23:8‑10)

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Jer. 15:18• ¹⁸{i}Why 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?{/i} (Jer. 15:18)

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Psa. 38:17• ¹⁷For I am prepared for halting,{HR}And my pain [is] continually before me. (Psa. 38:17)

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Psa. 116:3• ³Bands of death compassed me,{HR}And straits of Sheol seized me:{HR}I found trouble and sorrow; (Psa. 116:3)

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Neh. 2:2• ²{i}And 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.{/i} (Neh. 2:2)

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Prov. 15:13• ¹³A joyful heart maketh a cheerful countenance;{HR}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,{HR}And he is sore vexed and hath sickness and irritation. (Eccl. 5:17)

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

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Jer. 45:3• ³thou didst say, Woe is me now! for Jehovah 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• ³⁸{i}Then he says to them, My soul is very sorrowful even unto death; remain here and watch with me.{/i} (Matt. 26:38)

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

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

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Phil. 2:27• ²⁷For indeed he was sick near to death; but God pitied him, and not him only, but me also, that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow. (Phil. 2:27)

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Psa. 7:2,4‑5• ²Lest like a lion he tear my soul, tearing it in pieces,{HR}And there is none to deliver.
⁴If I have recompensed with evil him that is at peace with me;{HR}If I have spoiled mine adversary without a cause;
⁵Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it,{HR}And let him tread down my life to the ground,{HR}And let him cause mine honour to lie in the dust. Selah. (Psa. 7:2,4‑5)

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Psa. 8:2• ²From the mouth of children and sucklings hast thou ordained praise{HR}Because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the revenger. (Psa. 8:2)

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Psa. 9:6• ⁶O enemy, the desolations are completed forever,{HR}And thou hast destroyed cities;{HR}The remembrance of them hath perished. (Psa. 9:6)

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Psa. 10:18• ¹⁸To judge the orphan and the oppressed:{HR}He shall continue no more to terrify man from the earth. (Psa. 10:18)

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Psa. 17:9• ⁹From the face of the wicked who have oppressed me:{HR}Mine enemies in soul will surround me. (Psa. 17:9)

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Psa. 74:10,18• ¹⁰How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach?{HR}Shall the enemy despise thy name forever?
¹⁸Remember this: an enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah,{HR}And a foolish people have despised 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• ¹⁹{i}For 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.{/i} (1 Sam. 24:19)

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Esther 7:6• ⁶And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even 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;{HR}Therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter.{HR}O Jehovah, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. (Lam. 1:9)

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Mic. 7:8‑10• ⁸{i}Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: though I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah shall be a light unto me.{/i}
⁹{i}I 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.{/i}
¹⁰{i}And 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.{/i} (Mic. 7:8‑10)

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Psa. 22:7‑8• ⁷All those who see me mock me,{HR}They open wide with the lip, they shake the head.
⁸Commit [thyself] unto Jehovah;{HR}Let him deliver him;{HR}He will deliver him because he hath delighted in him. (Psa. 22:7‑8)

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Psa. 31:18• ¹⁸The lips of falsehood shall be dumb,{HR}Which speak against the righteous one insolently, with pride and contempt. (Psa. 31:18)

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Psa. 42:10• ¹⁰With a sword in my bones mine oppressors have reproached me,{HR}When they say all the day unto me, Where is thy God? (Psa. 42:10)

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Psa. 44:14‑16• ¹⁴Thou settest us a by-word among the Gentiles,{HR}A shaking of the head among the nations.
¹⁵All the day my shame [is] before me,{HR}And the confusion of my face hath covered me,
¹⁶Because of the voice of him who reproacheth and blasphemeth,{HR}Because of the face of the enemy and the avenger. (Psa. 44:14‑16)

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Psa. 123:3‑4• ³Be gracious to us, Jehovah,{HR}Be gracious to us,{HR}For greatly are we filled with contempt.
⁴Greatly is our soul filled with the scorning of those at ease,{HR}The contempt of the proud. (Psa. 123:3‑4)

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Psa. 143:3‑4• ³For the enemy hath persecuted my soul,{HR}He hath crushed to the earth my life;{HR}He hath made me dwell in dark places,{HR}Like those long dead.
⁴And overwhelmed in (on) me is my spirit,{HR}In the midst of me desolated is my heart. (Psa. 143:3‑4)

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Lam. 1:5• ⁵{i}Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper;{/i}{sup}{HR}{/sup}Because Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions:{HR}Her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. (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. (“Psalm 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?

W. Kelly Translation

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Until when shall I lay up counsels in my soul, grief in my heart daily?{HR}Until when shall mine enemy be lifted up above me?