Habakkuk 1:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 14:9 : 9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
  • Ps 13:1-2 : 1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 74:9-9 : 9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. 10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
  • 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, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

  • 1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

  • 1 LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

  • Hab 3:1-2
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    1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.

    2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

  • 41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

  • 8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

  • 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

  • 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

  • 14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.

  • 1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

  • 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

  • 19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

  • 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

  • 20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

  • 4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

  • 1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.

  • 2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

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    3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

  • 18 Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

  • 42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

  • 9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

  • 4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

  • 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

  • 18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

  • 11 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

  • 20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • 1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

  • 15 Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.

  • 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

  • 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

  • 11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

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  • 16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

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  • 1 In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

  • 8 I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.

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  • Ps 13:1-2
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    1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

    2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

  • 22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

  • 20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

  • 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

  • 19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

  • 13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

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    2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

  • 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.