Psalm 13: Seeking God’s Presence on Your Worst Day

Psalms Seeking God’s Presence. Psalm 13 – Seeking God’s Presence on Your Worst Day

Read Psalm 13

Read Leslie Brandt’s paraphrase of Psalm 13 (at the bottom of this study.)

• What stands out to you in this Psalm?

Consider the first three verses of Psalm 13, or the first stanza of Brandt’s paraphrase.

• When you think about addressing God this way, how do you feel?
• Why do you think that is?
• When you are under pressure, and God is silent, what do you do?
• Why do you think that is?
• Can you share one memory of a time when God drew near to you?
• Can you share one Bible verse that is particularly precious to you?
• When you meditate on these things, how do you feel?

Leslie Brandt, Psalms/Now, “Psalm 13.”

O God, sometimes you seem so far away.

I cannot in this moment sense Your presence or feel Your power.

The darkness enveloping me is stifling.

This depression is suffocating.

How long, O God, do I have to live in this void?

O God, how long?

Break into this black night, O God;

Fill in this vast emptiness.

Enter into my conflict

Lest I fall, never to rise again.

I continue to trust in your ever-present love.

I shall again discover true joy

In my relationship with you.

I will proclaim your praises, my Lord,

For you will never let me go.