Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
English Revised Version
Psalms 13
1How long, O LORD, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3Consider and answer me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; 4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved. 5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: 6I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
English Revised Version (1885). Public domain. The 1881/1885 British revision of the King James Version; parent of the ASV.