Psalms 13:3

"How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?"

Key Reflection

In Psalms 13:3, the psalmist expresses deep distress and ongoing sorrow, questioning God about the duration of his inner turmoil and external struggles. This cry for divine intervention reveals a longing for deliverance from both personal anguish and the persistent attacks of adversaries.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Consider and hear me -literally, “Look, hear me.” God had seemed to avert his face as if he would not even look upon himPsalms 13:1; and the psalmist now prays that he “would” look upon him - that he would regard his wants - that he would attend to his cry. So we pray to one who turns away from us as if he were not disposed to hear, and as if he cared nothing about us. Lighten mine eyes -The allusion here is, probably, to his exhaustion, arising from trouble and despair, as if he were about to die. The sight grows dim as death approaches; and he seemed to feel that death was near. He says that unless God should interpose, the darkness would deepen, and he must die.

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