Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
Parallel translations
- KJV O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
- BSB How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
- NKJV O Lord, how long shall I cry, And You will not hear? Even cry out to You, “Violence!” And You will not save.
- NASB ¶How long, Lord, have I called for help, And You do not hear? I cry out to You, “Violence!” Yet You do not save.
- NLT How long, O Lord, must I call for help? But you do not listen! “Violence is everywhere!” I cry, but you do not come to save.
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Cross-references · 7
- Ps 22:1–2For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
- Ps 13:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Lam 3:8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
- Jer 14:9Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.
- Rev 6:10They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
- Ps 94:3Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?
- Ps 74:9–10We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
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