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Psalms 13

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

Psalms 12 Psalms 14

¹How long, Yahweh?

²How long shall I take counsel in my soul,

³Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God.

⁴lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;”

⁵But I trust in your loving kindness.

⁶I will sing to Yahweh,

¹How long, Yahweh?

²How long shall I take counsel in my soul,

³Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God.

⁴lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;”

⁵But I trust in your loving kindness.

⁶I will sing to Yahweh,

¹How long, Yahweh?

²How long shall I take counsel in my soul,

³Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God.

⁴lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;”

⁵But I trust in your loving kindness.

⁶I will sing to Yahweh,

In context

Psalms 13 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

⁴who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.

⁵“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,

⁶Yahweh’s words are flawless words,

⁷You will keep them, Yahweh.

⁸The wicked walk on every side,

Immediately after

¹The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”

²Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men,

³They have all gone aside.

⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,

⁵There they were in great fear,

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,