Psalm 13:2

A Plea For Deliverance

¹ How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
² 
How long must I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart day after day?
How long will my enemy exalt himself and triumph over me? ³
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
Give light (life) to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

Be Exalted

How Long

In Me

Lifted Up

Day After Day

Jehovah

1 Samuel 18:29

Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s constant enemy.

1 Samuel 24:19

For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? So may the Lord reward you with good in return for what you have done for me this day.

Nehemiah 2:2

So the king said to me, “Why do you look sad when you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of heart.” Then I was very frightened,

Esther 7:6

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy is Haman, this evil man.” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.

Job 7:12-15

“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?

Job 9:19-21

“If it is a matter of strength and power, behold, He is mighty!
And if of justice, who can summon and challenge Him?

Job 9:27-28

“If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
I will leave off my sad appearance, and be cheerful and brighten up,’

Job 10:15

‘If I am wicked, woe to me [for judgment comes]!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
For I am sated and filled with disgrace and the sight of my misery.

Job 23:8-10

“Behold, I go forward (to the east), but He is not there;
I go backward (to the west), but I cannot perceive Him;

Psalm 7:2

So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion,
Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me].

Psalm 7:4-5

If I have done evil to him who was at peace with me,
Or without cause robbed him who was my enemy,

Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
That You might silence the enemy and make the revengeful cease.

Psalm 9:6

The enemy has been cut off and has vanished in everlasting ruins,
You have uprooted their cities;
The very memory of them has perished.

Psalm 10:18

To vindicate and obtain justice for the fatherless and the oppressed,
So that man who is of the earth will no longer terrify them.

Psalm 17:9

From the wicked who despoil and deal violently with me,
My deadly enemies who surround me.

Psalm 22:7-8

All who see me laugh at me and mock me;
They [insultingly] open their lips, they shake their head, saying,

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous
With pride and contempt.

Psalm 38:17

For I am ready to fall;
My sorrow is continually before me.

Psalm 42:4

These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul;
How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song],
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

Psalm 42:9-10

I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Psalm 44:14-16

You make us a byword among the nations,
A laughingstock among the people.

Psalm 74:10

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?
Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

Psalm 74:18

Remember this, O Lord, the enemy has scoffed,
And a foolish and impious people has spurned Your name.

Psalm 77:2-12

In the day of my trouble I [desperately] sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out [in prayer] without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

Psalm 94:18-19

If I say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your compassion and lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.

Psalm 116:3

The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.

Psalm 123:3-4

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious and favorable toward us,
For we are greatly filled with contempt.

Psalm 142:4-7

Look to the right [the point of attack] and see;
For there is no one who has regard for me [to act in my favor].
Escape has failed me and I have nowhere to run;
No one cares about my life.

Psalm 143:3-4

For the enemy has persecuted me,
He has crushed my life down to the ground;
He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

Proverbs 15:13

A heart full of joy and goodness makes a cheerful face,
But when a heart is full of sadness the spirit is crushed.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

All of his life he also eats in darkness [cheerlessly, without sweetness and light], with great frustration, sickness, and anger.

Jeremiah 8:18

Oh, that I (Jeremiah) could find comfort from my sorrow [for my grief is beyond healing],
My heart is sick and faint within me!

Jeremiah 15:18

Why has my pain been perpetual
And my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive brook
With water that is unreliable?

Jeremiah 45:3

‘You said, “Woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning and sighing and I find no rest.”’

Lamentations 1:5

Her adversaries have become her masters,
Her enemies prosper;
For the Lord has caused her grief
Because of the multitude of her transgressions;
Her young children have gone
Into captivity before the enemy.

Lamentations 1:9

Her (ceremonial) uncleanness was on her skirts;
She did not [seriously] consider her future.
Therefore she has come down [from throne to slavery] in an astonishing manner;
She has no comforter.
“O Lord” [cries Jerusalem], “look at my affliction,
For the enemy has magnified himself [in triumph]!”

Micah 7:8-10

Do not rejoice over me [amid my tragedies], O my enemy!
Though I fall, I will rise;
Though I sit in the darkness [of distress], the Lord is a light for me.

Matthew 26:38

Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, so that I am almost dying of sorrow. Stay here and stay awake and keep watch with Me.”

Luke 22:53

Day after day when I was with you in the temple, you did not lay hands on Me; but this hour and the power and authority of darkness are yours.”

John 16:6

But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts [and taken complete possession of them].

Romans 9:2

that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Philippians 2:27

He certainly was sick and close to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.