Psalm 13

Douglas Wilson, 2000 ©

1. How long, O LORD, will You forget?
   I lift my prayer to You and yet
   You do not hear my meditation;
   You still refuse my supplication.
   I live in sorrow and regret.
   
2. How long will all my foes exult?
   Why must they taunt and still insult?
   O LORD, my God, my prayer consider,
   Sustain my eyes, my cry consider,
   Lest I come down to death’s cold vault.
   
3. Why should my foes my fortress scale?
   Why do You let them still assail?
   But I have trusted Your salvation,
   And I rejoice with exultation;
   I sing; God’s bounty will prevail.