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About this chapterDavid asks four times how long: will God forget him forever, hide his face, leave him wrestling with thoughts and sorrow, and let his enemy triumph? He begs God to look on him and answer, or he will fall into the sleep of death. Yet the last verses turn: he trusts in God's steadfast love, rejoices in salvation and sings because God has been good to him. In six verses the psalm moves from complaint to praise, showing that lament and trust can live in the same prayer.

David asks four times how long: will God forget him forever, hide his face, leave him wrestling with thoughts and sorrow, and let his enemy triumph? He begs God to look on him and answer, or he will fall into the sleep of death. Yet the last verses turn: he trusts in God's steadfast love, rejoices in salvation and sings because God has been good to him. In six verses the psalm moves from complaint to praise, showing that lament and trust can live in the same prayer.

Themes

  • How long?
  • Lament and trust
  • Singing after sorrow

Key verses

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Psalms 13

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1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 2How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me? 3Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death, 4lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall. 5But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation. 6I will sing to the LORD, for He has been good to me.

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