Introduction
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
The emphatic עד אנה ( ad-anah) “how long,” and the complaint of sufferings long continued, sound like an echo from the depth of the captivity, to which many have assigned this psalm. But, as it also fitly applies to the prolonged persecutions by Saul, and bears in the title the name of David as author, among whose psalms it is placed by the compiler of the Hebrew Psalter, it may be better to follow the drift of modern authority, and place it at the latter end of the Sauline persecution. But, above all, it belongs to the pious in all ages who suffer as David did. The psalm has three strophes of two verses each: Psalms 13:1-2, the complaint; Psalms 13:3-4, the prayer; Psalms 13:5-6, the joyful victory of faith. The gradation of mental exercise from the complaint, through the prayer, to the victory, is beautiful.
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