There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
Parallel translations
- WEB We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
- KJV We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
- NKJV We do not see our signs; There is no longer any prophet; Nor is there any among us who knows how long.
- NASB We do not see our signs; There is no longer any prophet, Nor is there anyone among us who knows how long.
- NLT We no longer see your miraculous signs. All the prophets are gone, and no one can tell us when it will end.
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Quick answer
The people see no miraculous signs, have no prophet, and no one knows how long the desolation will last.
Overview
The deepest grief is the apparent silence of God: no signs, no prophetic word, no sense of when relief will come. The absence of God's guiding voice compounds the suffering. This longing for a word from God is ultimately answered in Christ, the final and full revelation of God to his people (Hebrews 1:1-2).
Cross-references & the web
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- Amos 8:11Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
- Ezek 7:26Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
- 1 Sam 3:1And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare and visions were scarce.
- Lam 2:9Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
- Exod 12:13The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
- Ezek 20:12I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
- Mic 3:6Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
- Exod 13:9–10It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
- Heb 2:4and was affirmed by God through signs, wonders, various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will.
- Judg 6:17Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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