Habakkuk 1:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

O Lorde, howe long shall I crye, and thou wilt not heare! euen crye out vnto thee for violence, and thou wilt not helpe!

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 14:9 : 9 Why art thou as a man astonied, and as a strong man that cannot helpe? Yet thou, O Lord, art in the middes of vs, and thy Name is called vpon vs: forsake vs not.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.
  • Ps 13:1-2 : 1 To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for euer? howe long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsell within my selfe, hauing wearinesse dayly in mine heart? how long shall mine enemie be exalted aboue me?
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 To him that excelleth vpon Aiieleth Hasshahar. A Psalme of Dauid. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, and art so farre from mine health, and from the wordes of my roaring? 2 O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.
  • Ps 74:9-9 : 9 We see not our signes: there is not one Prophet more, nor any with vs that knoweth howe long. 10 O God, howe long shall the aduersarie reproche thee? shall the enemie blaspheme thy Name for euer?
  • Ps 94:3 : 3 Lord how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, Lord, which art holie and true! doest not thou iudge and auenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3Why doest thou shewe mee iniquitie, and cause me to beholde sorowe? for spoyling, and violence are before me: and there are that rayse vp strife and contention.

  • 1The burden, which Habakkuk the Prophet did see.

  • 1A Psalme of Dauid. O Lord, I call vpon thee: haste thee vnto me: heare my voyce, when I cry vnto thee.

  • Hab 3:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1A prayer of Habakkuk the Prophet for the ignorances.

    2O Lord, I haue heard thy voyce, and was afraide: O Lord, reuiue thy worke in the mids of the people, in the mids of the yeeres make it knowen: in wrath remember mercy.

  • 41They cryed but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lorde, but hee answered them not.

  • 8For since I spake, I cryed out of wrong, and proclaimed desolation: therefore the word of the Lorde was made a reproche vnto me, and in derision daily.

  • 7Beholde, I crie out of violence, but I haue none answere: I crie, but there is no iudgement.

  • 21Howe long shall I see the standert, and heare the sounde of the trumpet?

  • 14I haue a long time holden my peace: I haue beene still and refrained my selfe: nowe will I crie like a trauailing woman: I will destroy and deuoure at once.

  • 1A prayer of the afflicted, when hee shall be in distresse, and poure foorth his meditation before the Lorde. O Lorde, heare my prayer, and let my crye come vnto thee.

  • 12Haue ye no regarde, all yee that passe by this way? behold, and see, if there be any sorowe like vnto my sorowe, which is done vnto mee, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce wrath.

  • 19O Lord, to thee will I crie: for the fire hath deuoured the pastures of the wildernesse, and the flame hath burnt vp all the trees of the fielde.

  • 12Wilt thou holde thy selfe still at these things, O Lorde? wilt thou holde thy peace and afflict vs aboue measure?

  • 20Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.

  • 4Then shall they crye vnto the Lorde, but he will not heare them: he wil euen hide his face from them at that time, because they haue done wickedly in their workes.

  • 1A Psalme of Dauid, to giue instruction, and a prayer, when he was in the caue. I cryed vnto the Lord with my voyce: with my voyce I prayed vnto the Lord.

  • 2Hearken vnto me, & answere me: I mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse,

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    3My soule is also sore troubled: but Lorde how long wilt thou delay?

  • 18Therefore will I also execute my wrath: mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I haue pitie, and though they crie in mine eares with a loude voyce, yet will I not heare them.

  • 42They looked about, but there was none to saue them, euen vnto the Lord, but he answered them not.

  • 9They cause many that are oppressed, to crye, which crye out for ye violence of the mightie.

  • 4O Lord God of hostes, how long wilt thou be angrie against the prayer of thy people?

  • 2O my God, I crie by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but haue no audience.

  • 18The Lorde is righteous: for I haue rebelled against his commandement: heare, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorowe: my virgins and my yong men are gone into captiuitie.

  • 11Therefore thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I will bring a plague vpon them, which they shall not be able to escape, and though they crye vnto me, I will not heare them.

  • 20Beholde, O Lord, and consider to whome thou hast done thus: shall the women eate their fruite, and children of a spanne long? shall the Priest and the Prophet be slaine in the Sanctuarie of the Lord?

  • 1Why standest thou farre off, O Lorde, and hidest thee in due time, euen in afflictio?

  • 15Behold, they say vnto me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come nowe.

  • 10And in that day, saith the Lord, there shall be a noise, and cry from the fishgate, and an howling from the second gate, and a great destruction from the hilles.

  • 20Behold, O Lorde, howe I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am ful of heauinesse: the sword spoyleth abroad, as death doeth at home.

  • 12Heare my prayer, O Lord, & hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.

  • 11Then sayd I, Lorde, howe long? And he answered, Vntill the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be vtterly desolate,

  • 1A song or Psalme of Heman the Ezrahite to giue instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah for him that excelleth vpon Malath Leannoth. O Lorde God of my saluation, I cry day and night before thee.

  • 16For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.

  • 1To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of Dauid. Heare my cry, O God: giue eare vnto my prayer.

  • 1A song of degrees. I called vnto the Lorde in my trouble, and hee heard me.

  • 8Then cried I vnto thee, O Lord, and praied to my Lord.

  • 46Lord, howe long wilt thou hide thy selfe, for euer? shall thy wrath burne like fire?

  • 1A Psalme of Dauid. Vnto thee, O Lord, doe I crie: O my strength, be not deafe toward mee, lest, if thou answere me not, I be like them that goe downe into the pit.

  • 1A song of degrees. Ovt of the deepe places haue I called vnto thee, O Lord.

  • Ps 13:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. Howe long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for euer? howe long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

    2How long shall I take counsell within my selfe, hauing wearinesse dayly in mine heart? how long shall mine enemie be exalted aboue me?

  • 22Thou hast seene it, O Lorde: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord.

  • 20But O Lord of hostes, that iudgest righteously, and triest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.

  • 6But in my trouble did I call vpon the Lord, and cryed vnto my God: he heard my voyce out of his Temple, and my crye did come before him, euen into his eares.

  • 19Hast thou vtterly reiected Iudah, or hath thy soule abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten vs, that we cannot be healed? Wee looked for peace, and there is no good, and for the time of health, and behold trouble.

  • 13Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euill: thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherefore doest thou looke vpon the transgressors, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man, that is more righteous then he?

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    2Hearken vnto the voyce of my crie, my King and my God: for vnto thee doe I pray.

  • 19Surely a people shal dwell in Zion, and in Ierusalem: thou shalt weepe no more: he wil certainly haue mercy vpon thee at the voyce of thy crye: when he heareth thee, he wil answere thee.