Psalm 13:1
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Cross-references
Psalm 94:3 cries 'How long shall the wicked exult?' — same structure, shifting focus to the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalm 89:46 asks 'How long will you hide yourself?' — nearly identical to the 'hide your face' complaint in Psalm 13:1.
Psalm 6:3 echoes the same lament 'how long?'—both express deep anguish over God's delay.
Psalm 10:12 pleads 'forget not the afflicted' — the opposite of the fear of being forgotten in Psalm 13:1.
Psalm 22:1 echoes the same cry of abandonment — 'why have you forsaken me?' — intensifying the lament of forgottenness.
Psalm 22:2 continues the lament of unanswered cries, mirroring the sense of God's silence and hiddenness.
Psalm 85:5 questions if God's anger will last forever, mirroring the lament over prolonged divine displeasure.
Psalm 80:4 asks 'how long will you be angry?' — a direct parallel to the psalmist's question about God's hidden face.
Psalm 35:17 echoes the same 'How long, O Lord?' cry, reinforcing the psalmist's plea for deliverance from enemies.
Psalm 74:1 asks why God has rejected forever, paralleling the sense of abandonment in Psalm 13:1.
Psalm 42:9 asks 'Why have you forgotten me?' — the same question of divine forgetfulness.
Psalm 102:2 pleads 'Do not hide your face from me'—a parallel request echoing the same fear of God's absence.
Psalm 88:14 directly asks why God hides his face—the exact image from Psalm 13:1, deepening the lament.
Psalm 79:5 uses the identical 'How long, O Lord?' about God's anger—a parallel cry of impatience.
Psalm 77:7 echoes the same 'how long' lament, asking if God will spurn forever—reinforcing the theme of divine abandonment.
Psalm 74:10 asks 'How long, O God?' — the same opening phrase, but about enemy's scoffing.
Psalm 69:17 pleads 'hide not your face' — the same request as the lament's hiding face.
Psalm 44:24 combines both hiding face and forgetting, directly echoing the double question.
Psalm 30:7 recalls God hiding his face as a past experience of dismay, mirroring the lament.
In Psalm 27:9, the same plea 'hide not your face' echoes the lament of being forgotten.
Psalm 22:11 pleads 'be not far from me' — directly addressing the fear of God's distance expressed in the lament.
Psalm 143:7 also begs God not to hide his face—a direct parallel to the plea in Psalm 13:1.
Lamentations 5:20 asks 'Why do you forget us forever?' — a nearly identical lament over God's apparent abandonment.
Job 13:24 asks the exact same question — 'Why do you hide your face?' — linking personal suffering to divine hiddenness.
Jeremiah 15:18 laments God being like a deceitful brook—a parallel complaint of feeling abandoned by God.
Revelation 6:10 repeats the martyrs' 'how long' cry, linking the psalmist's lament to eschatological longing for justice.
Habakkuk 1:2 echoes the same 'how long' cry of unanswered prayer, deepening the lament of divine silence.
Luke 18:7 assures that God will bring justice to those who cry day and night, answering the 'how long' of the psalm.
Isaiah 54:8 acknowledges God's hiding of face but promises mercy—a divine response that contrasts the despair of Psalm 13:1.
Isaiah 49:14 directly quotes Zion's complaint 'The Lord has forgotten me'—identical to the lament in Psalm 13:1.
Job 23:8 describes searching for God but not finding him — echoing the sense of God's hiddenness in the lament.
Job 7:19 pleads for God to stop watching him — the opposite of Psalm 13:1's plea for God to stop hiding.
Isaiah 59:2 explains that sins cause God to hide his face — providing a theological reason for the lament's question.
Deuteronomy 31:17 describes God hiding his face as judgment for sin — the same phrase used in the lament, but as a cause rather than a complaint.
Job 34:29 speaks of God hiding his face as an act of sovereign quiet — a theological reflection on the same hiddenness.