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How Long, O LORD?

Psalms 13:1

In 11 translations

BSB
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
KJV
How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?chief…: or, overseer
WEB
How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
ASV
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
LSV
TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. Until when, O YHWH, || Do You forget me forever? Until when do You hide Your face from me?
YLT
To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? — for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?
DBY
How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
DRC12:1
Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?
GNV
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for euer? howe long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
JPS13:2
How long, O LORD, wilt Thou forget me for ever? How long wilt Thou hide Thy face from me?
LXXE12:1
For the end, a Psalm of David.

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Original-language editions

WLC13:2
עַד־אָ֣נָה יְ֭הוָה תִּשְׁכָּחֵ֣נִי נֶ֑צַח עַד־אָ֓נָה ׀ תַּסְתִּ֖יר אֶת־פָּנֶ֣יךָ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃KJV:Ps.13.1

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 13:24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
  • Lamentations 5:20Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
  • Psalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
  • Psalms 94:3–4How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult? They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
  • Psalms 22:1–2My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning? I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
  • Psalms 80:4O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?
  • Psalms 44:24Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
  • Psalms 35:17How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
  • Psalms 6:3My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?
  • Psalms 74:1Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?
  • Psalms 10:12Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
  • Psalms 85:5Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?
  • Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
  • Psalms 90:14Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
  • Deuteronomy 31:17On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not…

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 13:2 in some Bibles
  • 13:1-2 in some Bibles
  • 13:1 in most Bibles
  • Mapping unverified: STEPBible TVTMS has rules for this verse in this edition's tradition that would place it elsewhere, but their tests did not match this edition.

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