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 <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1">Psalm 13#sn Psalm 13. The psalmist, who is close to death, desperately pleads for God&#8217;s deliverance and affirms his trust in God&#8217;s faithfulness.</div><div class="s2">For the music director; a psalm of David.</div><div class="p">1 How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me?#tn Heb &#8220;will you forget me continually.&#8221;</div><div class="p">How long will you pay no attention to me?#tn Heb &#8220;will you hide your face from me.&#8221;</div><div class="p">2 How long must I worry,#tn Heb &#8220;How long will I put counsel in my being?&#8221;</div><div class="p">and suffer in broad daylight?#tn Heb &#8220;[with] grief in my heart by day.&#8221;</div><div class="p">How long will my enemy gloat over me?#tn Heb &#8220;be exalted over me.&#8221; Perhaps one could translate, &#8220;How long will my enemy defeat me?&#8221;</div><div class="p">3 Look at me!#tn Heb &#8220;see.&#8221; Answer me, O Lord my God!</div><div class="p">Revive me,#tn Heb &#8220;Give light [to] my eyes.&#8221; The Hiphil of &#1488;&#1493;&#1468;&#1512; (&#8217;ur), when used elsewhere with &#8220;eyes&#8221; as object, refers to the law of God giving moral enlightenment (Ps 19:8), to God the creator giving literal eyesight to all people (Prov 29:13), and to God giving encouragement to his people (Ezra 9:8). Here the psalmist pictures himself as being on the verge of death. His eyes are falling shut and, if God does not intervene soon, he will &#8220;fall asleep&#8221; for good. or else I will die!#tn Heb &#8220;or else I will sleep [in?] the death.&#8221; Perhaps the statement is elliptical, &#8220;I will sleep [the sleep] of death,&#8221; or &#8220;I will sleep [with the sleepers in] death.&#8221;</div><div class="p">4 Then#tn Heb &#8220;or else.&#8221; my enemy will say, &#8220;I have defeated him!&#8221;</div><div class="p">Then#tn Heb &#8220;or else.&#8221; my foes will rejoice because I am upended.</div><div class="p">5 But I#tn The grammatical construction used here (conjunction with independent pronoun) highlights the contrast between the psalmist&#8217;s defeated condition envisioned in v. 4 and confident attitude he displays in v. 5. trust in your faithfulness.</div><div class="p">May I rejoice because of your deliverance!#tn Heb &#8220;may my heart rejoice in your deliverance.&#8221; The verb form is jussive. Having expressed his trust in God&#8217;s faithful character and promises, the psalmist prays that his confidence will prove to be well-placed. &#8220;Heart&#8221; is used here of the seat of the emotions.</div><div class="p">6 I will sing praises#tn The verb form is cohortative, indicating the psalmist&#8217;s resolve (or vow) to praise the Lord when deliverance arrives. to the Lord</div><div class="p">when he vindicates me.#tn Or &#8220;for he will have vindicated me.&#8221; The verb form indicates a future perfect here. The idiom &#1490;&#1464;&#1502;&#1463;&#1500; &#1506;&#1463;&#1500; (gamal &#8217;al) means &#8220;to repay,&#8221; here in a positive sense.</div>
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How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me?
How long will you pay no attention to me?
How long must I worry,
and suffer in broad daylight?
How long will my enemy gloat over me?
Look at me! Answer me, O LORD my God!
Revive me, or else I will die!
Then my enemy will say, “I have defeated him!”
Then my foes will rejoice because I am upended.
But I trust in your faithfulness.
May I rejoice because of your deliverance!
I will sing praises to the LORD
when he vindicates me.

සවන් දෙන්න Psalms 13