Psalms 74:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.

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  • 1 Sam 3:1 : 1 Now the young Samuel was the servant of the Lord before Eli. In those days the Lord kept his word secret from men; there was no open vision.
  • Amos 8:11 : 11 See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.
  • Mic 3:6 : 6 For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
  • Heb 2:4 : 4 And God was a witness with them, by signs and wonders, and by more than natural powers, and by his distribution of the Holy Spirit at his pleasure.
  • Exod 12:13 : 13 And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are: when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come on you for your destruction, when my hand is on the land of Egypt.
  • Exod 13:9-9 : 9 And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a mark on your brow, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt. 10 So let this order be kept, at the right time, from year to year.
  • Judg 6:17 : 17 So he said to him, If now I have grace in your eyes, then give me a sign that it is you who are talking to me.
  • Lam 2:9 : 9 Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.
  • Ezek 7:26 : 26 Destruction will come on destruction, and one story after another; and the vision of the prophet will be shamed, and knowledge of the law will come to an end among the priests, and wisdom among the old.
  • Ezek 20:12 : 12 And further, I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, so that it might be clear that I, who make them holy, am the Lord.

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    9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

    10 We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.

    11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

    12 For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:

  • 8 They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.

  • 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

  • 7 And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

  • 19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

  • 7 And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.

  • 6 We have not given ear to your servants the prophets, who said words in your name to our kings and our rulers and our fathers and all the people of the land.

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

  • 34 And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

  • 3 Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?

  • 28 And I saw that there was no man, even no wise man among them, who might give an answer to my questions.

  • 7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

  • 15 We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

  • 11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

  • 10 And have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God to go in the way of his laws which he put before us by the mouth of his servants the prophets.

  • 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

  • 11 And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?

  • 12 O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

  • 28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

  • 4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

  • 4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

  • 17 All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • 25 Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.

  • 8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

  • 8 How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

  • 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:

  • 17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

  • 14 Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

  • 15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?

  • 13 But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.

  • 20 The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.

  • 15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

  • 20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

  • 2 Why may the nations say, Where is now their God?

  • 46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

  • 18 They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

  • 33 And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.

  • 13 As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.

  • 1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

  • 26 Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

  • 9 Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

  • 11 And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.

  • 11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,