Psalms 13:2-7

2 Dominus de caelo prospexit super filios hominum ut videat si est intellegens %aut; requirens Deum

3 omnes declinaverunt simul inutiles facti sunt non est qui faciat bonum non est usque ad unum = sepulchrum patens est guttur eorum = linguis suis dolose agebant = venenum aspidum sub labiis eorum = quorum os maledictione et amaritudine plenum est = veloces pedes eorum ad effundendum sanguinem = contritio et infelicitas in viis eorum = et viam pacis non cognoverunt % non est timor Dei ante oculos eorum;

4 nonne cognoscent omnes qui operantur iniquitatem qui devorant plebem meam sicut escam panis

5 Dominum non invocaverunt illic trepidaverunt timore %ubi non erat timor;

6 quoniam Deus in generatione iusta consilium inopis confudistis quoniam Dominus spes eius est

7 quis dabit ex Sion salutare Israhel cum averterit Dominus captivitatem plebis suae exultabit Iacob et laetabitur Israhel

Psalms 13:2-7 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. According to Theodoret this psalm was written by David, not when he fled from Saul, but from Absalom; and gives this reason for it, what happened to him from Saul was before his sin, and therefore he could speak with great boldness; but what befell him from Absalom was after it, and therefore mourning and groans were mixed with his words.