Psalms 13:2

David asks how long he must bear inner sorrow while his enemy triumphs. The lament voices the weariness of unrelieved grief.

Cross-references · 40

• Mic 7:8–10Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
• Jer 8:18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
• Jer 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
• Prov 15:13A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
• Ps 143:3–4For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
• Lam 1:5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
• Ps 123:3–4Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
• Ps 142:4–7I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
• Job 23:8–10Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
• Eccl 5:17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
• Job 10:15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
• Ps 74:10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
• John 16:6But because I have said these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart.
• Ps 94:18–19When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
• Lam 1:9Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
• Ps 9:6O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
• 1 Sam 18:29And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.
• Ps 10:18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
• Ps 17:9From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
• Job 9:19–21If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
• Ps 74:18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
• Ps 42:4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
• Ps 44:14–16Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
• Matt 26:38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
• Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
• Phil 2:27For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
• Ps 42:9–10I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
• Esth 7:6And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
• 1 Sam 24:19For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
• Job 7:12–15Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
• Ps 8:2Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
• Ps 116:3The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Ps 7:2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
• Neh 2:2Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
• Job 9:27–28If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
• Rom 9:2That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
• Ps 7:4–5If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)
• Ps 22:7–8All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
• Luke 22:53When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
• Ps 77:2–12In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

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