Ps.13.1-2
13:1-2 How long? The fourfold repetition expresses agitation and deep anguish (79:5).
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Ps.13.1-6
Ps 13 The psalmist’s piercing cry for help becomes a confident song of hope.
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Ps.13.2
13:2 A sense of anguish and sorrow closes off any perspective of hope (6:3). Unless the Lord answers the psalmist’s prayers (22:1), death seems inescapable, torturous, and slow (6:6; 32:3; 55:4; 61:2; 102:5; 116:3). The psalmist hardly knows how to pray; he longs for God’s redemption (25:17-18; 31:10; 38:8; 39:2).
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Ps.13.3
13:3 The psalmist’s affliction feels like death (22:15; 55:4; 88:15; 94:17; 116:3).
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