Psalms 13:1

Psalm 13 ¹ 

For the music director; a psalm of David.

13:1 How long, Lord, will you continue to ignore me? ² 

How long will you pay no attention to me? ³ 

Psalms 27:9

27:9 Do not reject me! ⁴ 

Do not push your servant away in anger!

You are my deliverer! ⁵ 

Do not forsake or abandon me,

O God who vindicates me!

Psalms 69:17

69:17 Do not ignore ⁶  your servant,

for I am in trouble! Answer me right away! ⁷ 

Psalms 88:14

88:14 O Lord, why do you reject me,

and pay no attention to me? ⁸ 

Psalms 104:29

104:29 When you ignore them, they panic. ⁹ 

When you take away their life’s breath, they die

and return to dust.

Psalms 143:7

143:7 Answer me quickly, Lord!

My strength is fading. ¹⁰ 

Do not reject me, ¹¹ 

or I will join ¹²  those descending into the grave. ¹³ 

Job 34:29

34:29 But if God ¹⁴  is quiet, who can condemn ¹⁵  him?

If he hides his face, then who can see him?

Yet ¹⁶  he is over the individual and the nation alike, ¹⁷ 

Isaiah 8:17

8:17 I will wait patiently for the Lord,

who has rejected the family of Jacob; ¹⁸ 

I will wait for him.

Isaiah 43:2

43:2 When you pass through the waters, I am with you;

when you pass ¹⁹  through the streams, they will not overwhelm you.

When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned;

the flames will not harm ²⁰  you.

Isaiah 43:1

The Lord Will Rescue His People

43:1 Now, this is what the Lord says,

the one who created you, O Jacob,

and formed you, O Israel:

“Don’t be afraid, for I will protect ²¹  you.

I call you by name, you are mine.

Colossians 1:13

1:13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves, ²² 

[13:1]  ¹ sn Psalm 13. The psalmist, who is close to death, desperately pleads for God’s deliverance and affirms his trust in God’s faithfulness.

[13:1]  ² tn Heb “will you forget me continually.”

[13:1]  ³ tn Heb “will you hide your face from me.”

[27:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “do not hide your face from me.” The idiom “hide the face” can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).

[27:9]  ⁵ tn Or “[source of] help.”

[69:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “do not hide your face from.” The Hebrew idiom “hide the face” can (1) mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or (2) carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).

[69:17]  ⁷ tn Or “quickly.”

[88:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “[why] do you hide your face from me?”

[104:29]  ⁹ tn Heb “you hide your face, they are terrified.”

[143:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “my spirit is failing.”

[143:7]  ¹¹ tn Heb “do not hide your face from me.” The idiom “hide the face” (1) can mean “ignore” (see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9) or (2) can carry the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 30:7; 88:14).

[143:7]  ¹² tn Heb “I will be equal with.”

[143:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “the pit.” The Hebrew noun בּוֹר (bor, “pit; cistern”) is sometimes used of the grave and/or the realm of the dead. See Ps 28:1.

[34:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[34:29]  ¹⁵ tn The verb in this position is somewhat difficult, although it does make good sense in the sentence – it is just not what the parallelism would suggest. So several emendations have been put forward, for which see the commentaries.

[34:29]  ¹⁶ tn The line simply reads “and over a nation and over a man together.” But it must be the qualification for the points being made in the previous lines, namely, that even if God hides himself so no one can see, yet he is still watching over them all (see H. H. Rowley, Job [NCBC], 222).

[34:29]  ¹⁷ tn The word translated “alike” (Heb “together”) has bothered some interpreters. In the reading taken here it is acceptable. But others have emended it to gain a verb, such as “he visits” (Beer), “he watches over” (Duhm), “he is compassionate” (Kissane), etc. But it is sufficient to say “he is over.”

[8:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “who hides his face from the house of Jacob.”

[43:2]  ¹⁹ tn The verb is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[43:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “burn” (so NASB); NAB, NRSV, NLT “consume”; NIV “set you ablaze.”

[43:1]  ²¹ tn Or “redeem.” See the note at 41:14. Cf. NCV “saved you”; CEV “rescued you”; NLT “ransomed you.”

[1:13]  ²² tn Here αὐτοῦ (autou) has been translated as a subjective genitive (“he loves”).