We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
Parallel translations
- KJV We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
- BSB There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
- 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
Cross-references · 10
- Amos 8:11Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing Yahweh’s words.
- Ezek 7:26Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
- 1 Sam 3:1The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. Yahweh’s word was precious in those days. There visions were not frequent.
- Lam 2:9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
- Exod 12:13The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
- Ezek 20:12Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
- Mic 3:6“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
- Exod 13:9–10It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
- Heb 2:4God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
- Judg 6:17He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.
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