Habakkuk 1:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 14:9 : 9 Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
  • Ps 13:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me? 2 How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying? 2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
  • Ps 74:9-9 : 9 We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long. 10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?
  • Ps 94:3 : 3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?

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    77%

    1 The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

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    73%

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  • Ps 18:41
    73%

    41 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

  • Jer 20:8
    72%

    8 For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

  • Job 19:7
    72%

    7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

  • Jer 4:21
    72%

    21 How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?

  • Isa 42:14
    72%

    14 I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

  • Ps 102:1
    71%

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  • Joel 1:19
    71%

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    71%

    20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

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    70%

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    70%

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    70%

    3 My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

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  • 2 Sam 22:42
    70%

    42 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

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    70%

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    70%

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    70%

    18 The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

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    70%

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    70%

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    70%

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    70%

    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

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    70%

    12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

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    70%

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    69%

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    69%

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    69%

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    69%

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    69%

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    69%

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    69%

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    69%

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