Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
Forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
New American Standard Bible
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How long, O Lord? Will You
How long
King James Version
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
International Standard Version
How long? LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
A Conservative Version
How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?
American Standard Version
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Amplified
How long will You hide Your face from me?
Bible in Basic English
Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?
Darby Translation
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Julia Smith Translation
To the overseer; chanting of David.
King James 2000
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?
Lexham Expanded Bible
How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Modern King James verseion
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
NET Bible
For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?
New Heart English Bible
How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
The Emphasized Bible
How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou wholly forget me? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Webster
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
World English Bible
How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
Youngs Literal Translation
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?
Themes
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » Sometimes prolonged
veiled Deity » God spoken of as hiding himself
divine Delays » Try men's courage and patience
Prayer » For miscellaneous topics relating to the devotional life, » Answer delayed
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 13:1
Prayers for Psalm 13:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Deliverance
1 For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
Forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
agony in my mind every day?
How long will my enemy dominate me?
Cross References
Job 13:24
and consider me Your enemy?
Psalm 89:46
Will Your anger keep burning like fire?
Psalm 10:12
Do not forget the afflicted.
Psalm 44:24
and forget our affliction and oppression?
Lamentations 5:20
abandoned us for our entire lives?
Deuteronomy 31:17
My anger will burn against them on that day; I will abandon them and hide My face from them so that they will become easy prey.
Psalm 6:3
And You, Lord—how long?
Psalm 22:1-2
For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.”
Why are You so far from my deliverance
and from my words of groaning?
Psalm 35:17
Rescue my life from their ravages,
my only one from the young lions.
Psalm 74:1
A Maskil of Asaph.
Why does Your anger burn
against the sheep of Your pasture?
Psalm 80:4
how long will You be angry
with Your people’s prayers?
Psalm 85:5
Will You prolong Your anger for all generations?
Psalm 90:14
so that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days.
Psalm 94:3-4
Lord, how long will the wicked—
how long will the wicked gloat?
Isaiah 59:2
between you and your God,
and your sins have made Him hide His face from you
so that He does not listen.