{"id":3825,"date":"2015-11-13T09:12:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2024-01-08T07:26:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T13:26:44","slug":"psalm-131-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3825","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 13:1-6"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

1 How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?<\/span><\/em>
\nHow long will You hide Your face from me?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul,<\/span><\/em>
\nHaving sorrow in my heart daily?<\/span><\/em>
\nHow long will my enemy be exalted over me?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God;<\/span><\/em>
\nEnlighten my eyes,<\/span><\/em>
\nLest I sleep the sleep of death;<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

4 Lest my enemy say,<\/span><\/em>
\n\u201cI have prevailed against him\u201d;<\/span><\/em>
\nLest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

5 But I have trusted in Your mercy;<\/span><\/em>
\nMy heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

6 I will sing to the Lord,<\/span><\/em>
\nBecause He has dealt bountifully with me.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

For the heading, see notes on Psalms 3<\/span><\/a> and 4<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n

A psalm of lament, possibly written while David was being pursued by Saul.<\/h3>\n

This psalm continues to picture the sufferings of Israel during the “times of trouble” under the reign of the False Messiah. \u2014 Williams, page 306.<\/span><\/h3>\n

forget (v.1) \u2014 David was anguished by his experience of a seeming disruption of his relationship with God, not by the fact of one.<\/h3>\n

forever (v.1) \u2014 in the sense of “continually” or “utterly”<\/h3>\n

hide (v.2) \u2014 an indication that David thought his troubles might be chastisement for his own sin.<\/h3>\n

face (v.1) = presence<\/h3>\n

Just as one of the ways by which God hid His presence was to abstain from communication with His sinning people \u2014 whether directly or indirectly through dreams, lots, and prophets \u2014 so too does He abstain from such communication with David (as similarly with Saul; cf. 1 Samuel 28:6), which is why David refers to taking counsel in his soul (i.e., with himself). \u2014 Wechsler, page 51<\/span><\/h3>\n

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consider (v.3) \u2014 This verb is typically employed in the Bible to indicate not just careful attention to something, but also a sense of affinity with, acceptance of, and pleasure in the object of that attention (as in Genesis 19:26<\/span><\/a>; Psalm 119:6<\/span><\/a> and Amos 5:22 \u2014 all of which are generally rendered by “look(ed)”). It is also, no doubt, this specific nuance of the verb here used by David that underlies the “difficult” saying of Jesus in Luke 9:62). \u2014 Wechsler, page 51<\/span><\/h3>\n

salvation (v.5) \u2014 here, deliverance from the persecution spoken of<\/h3>\n

The certainty of the faithfulness, love and power which the Messiah will show to His people in the day of His coming again, strengthens the faith of His people during the time of their waiting and suffering. \u2014 Williams, page 306.<\/span><\/h3>\n

David’s determination to trust in the Lord is not conditional. He does not say that “if the Lord frees him from his troubles, then he will trust.” He says he has trusted and he will rejoice and sing.<\/h3>\n

dealt bountifully (v.6) \u2014 Regardless of whatever life might yet hold in store for him, the psalmist praises God \u2014 and in the process draws encouragement \u2014 from what He has already done … His having set the psalmist’s soul at rest. In the confidence of this rest that he already has, and in the hope of future glory that it inseparably entails, the psalmist is able to derive further strength and determination to continue on his walk before the Lord despite his being greatly afflicted by others. \u2014 Wechsler, from notes on Psalm 116<\/span><\/a> on page 277.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Each of the three sections of this psalm are themselves comprised of three conceptual parts which complement each other across the three sections \u2014 to wit: God “forgetting” (v.1) > God “considering” (v.3a) > David “trusting” (v.5a); David “grieving” in his heart (v.2a)> God “enlightening” David’s eyes (v.3b) > David’s heart rejoicing” (v.5b); and David’s enemies “being exalted” over him (v.2b) > Davids appeal lest his adversaries “overcome” him (v.4) > David’s “singing” to the Lord for delivering him (v.6).\u2014 Wechsler, page 50.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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