Psalms 13

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?

For the end, a Psalm of David. How long, O Lord, will you forget me? for ever? how long will you turn away your face from me?

2 How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrows in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

3 How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Look on me, listen to me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death;

4 Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes that I never sleep in death:

lest at any time mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: my persecutors will exult if ever I should be moved.

5 Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me will rejoice when I am moved:

But I have hoped in your mercy; my heart shall exult in your salvation.

6 But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea I will sing to the name of the Lord the most high.

I will sing to the Lord who has dealt bountifully with me, and I will sing psalms to the name of the Lord most high.