For the choir director. A psalm of David.

1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?

How long will you hide your face from me?  * 13:1 Jb 13:24; Ps 44:24; 89:46

2 How long will I store up anxious concerns  * 13:2 Or up counsels within me,

agony in my mind every day?

How long will my enemy dominate me?  * 13:2 Ps 6:3; 38:6; 42:9

3 Consider me and answer, Lord  my God.

Restore brightness to my eyes;  * 13:3 Ezr 9:8; Ps 19:8; Pr 29:13

otherwise, I will sleep in death.

4 My enemy will say, "I have triumphed over him,"

and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.  * 13:4 Ps 89:42

5 But I have trusted in your faithful love;  * 13:5 Ps 52:8

my heart will rejoice in your deliverance.  * 13:5 Ps 9:14

6 I will sing to the  Lord

because he has treated me generously.  * 13:6 Ps 119:17; 142:7