Teks -- Psalms 13:2 (NET)

13:2 How long must I worry, and suffer in broad daylight? How long will my enemy gloat over me?

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Wesley: Psa 13:2 - How long

Shall I be in such perplexities, not knowing what course to take?

JFB: Psa 13:2

The counsels or devices of his heart afford no relief.

Clarke: Psa 13:2 - Take counsel in my soul

Take counsel in my soul - I am continually framing ways and means of deliverance; but they all come to naught, because thou comest not to my deliverance. When a soul feels the burden and guilt of sin, it tries innumerable schemes of self-recovery; but they are all useless. None but God can speak peace to a guilty conscience

Clarke: Psa 13:2 - Mine enemy be exalted

Mine enemy be exalted - Satan appears to triumph while the soul lies under the curse of a broken law.

Calvin: Psa 13:2 - How long shall I take counsel in my soul?

2.How long shall I take counsel in my soul? We know that men in adversity give way to discontent, and look around them, first to one quarter, and then to another, in search of remedies. Especially, upon seeing that they are destitute of all resources, they torment themselves greatly, and are distracted by a multitude of thoughts; and in great dangers, anxiety and fear compel them to change their purposes from time to time, when they do not find any plan upon which they can fix with certainty. David, therefore, complains, that while thinking of different methods of obtaining relief, and deliberating with himself now in one way, and now in another, he is exhausted to no purpose with the multitude of suggestions which pass through his mind; and by joining to this complaint the sorrow which he felt daily, he points out the source of this disquietude. As in severe sickness the diseased would desire to change their place every moment, and the more acute the pains which afflict them are, the more fitful and eager are they in shifting and changing; so, when sorrow seizes upon the hearts of men, its miserable victims are violently agitated within, and they find it more tolerable to torment themselves without obtaining relief, than to endure their afflictions with composed and tranquil minds. The Lord, indeed, promises to give to the faithful “the spirit of counsels” (Isa 11:2) but he does not always give it to them at the very beginning of any matter in which they are interested, but suffers them for a time to be embarrassed by long deliberation without coming to a determinate decision, ²⁷¹ or to be perplexed, as if they were entangled among thorns, not knowing whither to turn, ²⁷² or what course to take. Some explain the Hebrew word יומם , yomam, as meaning all the day long. But it seems to me, that by it is rather meant another kind of continuance, namely, that his sorrow returned, and was renewed every day. In the end of the verse he deplores another evil, that his adversaries triumph over him the more boldly, when they see him wholly enfeebled, and as it were wasted by continual languor. Now this is an argument of great weight in our prayers; for there is nothing which is more displeasing to God, and which he will less bear with, than the cruel insolence which our enemies display, when they not only feast themselves by beholding us in misery, but also rise up the higher against us, and treat us the more disdainfully, the more they see us oppressed and afflicted.

TSK: Psa 13:2 - take // sorrow // enemy // exalted

take : Psa 77:2-12, Psa 94:18, Psa 94:19, Psa 142:4-7; Job 7:12-15, Job 9:19-21, Job 9:27, Job 9:28, Job 10:15; Job 23:8-10; Jer 15:18

sorrow : Psa 38:17, Psa 116:3; Neh 2:2; Pro 15:13; Ecc 5:17; Jer 8:18, Jer 45:3; Mat 26:38; Joh 16:6; Rom 9:2; Phi 2:27

enemy : Psa 7:2, Psa 7:4, Psa 7:5, Psa 8:2, Psa 9:6, Psa 10:18, Psa 17:9, Psa 74:10, Psa 74:18; 1Sa 18:29, 1Sa 24:19; Est 7:6; Lam 1:9; Mic 7:8-10

exalted : Psa 22:7, Psa 22:8, Psa 31:18, Psa 42:10, Psa 44:14-16, Psa 123:3, Psa 123:4, Psa 143:3, Psa 143:4; Lam 1:5; Luk 22:53

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Poole: Psa 13:2

How long shall I be in such perplexities and anxieties of mind, not knowing what course to take, nor how to get out of my troubles?

Haydock: Psa 13:2 - God

God. Those only who seek God, understand their real interests. (Haydock) ---

The pagans, and particularly those of Babylon, lived in the greatest dissolution, so as to call loudly for vengeance, ver. 5. (Calmet) ---

Both the understanding and the will were gone astray. (Berthier)

Gill: Psa 13:2 - How long shall I take counsel in my soul // having sorrow in my heart daily // how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me

How long shall I take counsel in my soul,.... Or "put it" ^s; to take counsel of good men and faithful friends, in matters of moment and difficulty, is safe and right; and it is best of all to take counsel of God, who is wonderful in it, and guides his people with it; but nothing is worse than for a man to take counsel of his own heart, or only to consult himself; for such counsel often casts a man down, and he is ashamed of it sooner or later: but this seems not to be the sense here; the phrase denotes the distressing circumstances and anxiety of mind the psalmist was in; he was at his wits' end, and cast about in his mind, and had various devises and counsels formed there; and yet knew not what way to take, what course to steer;

having sorrow in my heart daily; by reason of God's hiding his face from him; on account of sin that dwelt in him, or was committed by him; because of his distance from the house of God, and the worship and ordinances of it; and by reason of his many enemies that surrounded him on every side: this sorrow was an heart sorrow, and what continually attended him day by day; or was in the daytime, when men are generally amused with business or diversions, as well as in the night, as Kimchi observes;

how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? even the vilest of men, Psa 12:8; this may be understood either of temporal enemies, and was true of David when he was obliged not only to leave his own house and family, but the land of Judea, and flee to the Philistines; and when he fled from Absalom his son, lest he should be taken and slain by him; or of spiritual enemies, and is true of saints when sin prevails and leads captive, and when the temptations of Satan succeed; as when he prevailed upon David to number the people, Peter to deny his master, &c. The Jewish writers ^t observe that here are four "how longs", answerable to the four monarchies, Babylonian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman, and their captivities under them.