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0 For the choirmaster. A psalm of David.
How Long, O Yahweh?
1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I hold counsels within my self, sorrow in my heart by day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
3 Look, answer me, Yahweh my God! Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
4 lest my enemy say, ‘I have overcome him,’ and my foes rejoice when I am shaken.
5 But as for me, I have trusted in your loyal love; my heart will rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to Yahweh, for he has dealt bountifully with me.
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How Long, O Yahweh?
parallel Psalms 6:3 — Both psalms of David voice the repeated lament formula 'How long?' pleading for Yahweh's timely intervention. echoed in Psalms 35:11 — The lament cry 'how long' pleading for God to act. echoed in Psalms 44:23 — Shared lament question of why God hides his face and forgets the afflicted. thematic Habakkuk 1:2 — The 'How long?' lament questioning God's apparent inaction is a shared complaint motif. thematic Job 13:13 — Both lament God hiding his face from the sufferer. thematic Lamentations 5:19 — The lament question of why God forgets and forsakes his people for so long. thematic Psalms 89:46 — Shared motif of Yahweh hiding his face and the anguished cry 'How long' during divine withdrawal. thematic Psalms 44:24 — Both protest God's hiding of his face and apparent forgetting of the sufferer. thematic Psalms 6:4 — Both anchor the appeal for deliverance in Yahweh's loyal love (hesed) as the ground of hope. thematic Psalms 6:1 — The anguished 'how long?' lament directed to Yahweh in distress. thematic Psalms 10:1 — Shared lament motif of Yahweh hiding himself and forgetting in times of trouble. thematic Psalms 27:7 — Shared lament plea that God not hide his face from the sufferer. thematic Psalms 74:1 — Shared lament refrain 'How long' pressing God about the enemy's mockery. thematic Psalms 88:13 — Shared lament of God hiding his face and rejecting the sufferer. thematic Psalms 94:1 — Shared 'How long' lament crying out over the seeming triumph of the wicked.
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