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Waiting: where to start, and why this passage
Psalm 13:1-2 is the passage for waiting. You get the verses in full, the part of the story they sit inside, and a question to sit with. It takes about a minute, and you can have it now.
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The psalm asks it four times and does not answer it here.
Psalm 13 is a short prayer of complaint. It opens with repeated questions about delay and about God seeming hidden, and turns toward trust only later.
Read it in full, with the World English Bible text and the King James reading of the same verses, on the Psalm 13:1-2 page.
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The library lists all thirteen with a description of each, because situations get filed under words people would not always guess.
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