Habakkuk 1:2

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How long, LORD, must I call for help and You do not listen? I cry out to You, 'Violence!' but You do not save.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 14:9 : 9 Why are You like a man stunned, like a warrior unable to save? Yet You are in our midst, LORD, and Your name is called upon us. Do not abandon us!
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
  • Ps 13:1-2 : 1 For the director of music, a psalm of David. 2 How long, Lord, will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 For the director, to the tune of 'The Doe of the Morning,' a psalm of David. 2 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Far from saving me, from the words of my groaning.
  • Ps 74:9-9 : 9 We no longer see our signs; there is no more prophet, and no one among us knows how long. 10 How long, O God, will the enemy reproach? Will the adversary despise Your name forever?
  • Ps 94:3 : 3 How long, LORD, will the wicked, how long will the wicked exult?
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 They cried out with a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until You judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?'

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