Isaiah 64:12
In light of all this, how can you still hold back, LORD? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?
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- Isa 42:14 : 14 “I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp.
- Ps 74:10-11 : 10 How long, O God, will the adversary hurl insults? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever? 11 Why do you remain inactive? Intervene and destroy him!
- Ps 74:18-19 : 18 Remember how the enemy hurls insults, O LORD, and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name! 19 Do not hand the life of your dove over to a wild animal! Do not continue to disregard the lives of your oppressed people!
- Zech 1:12 : 12 The angel of the LORD then asked,“O LORD of Heaven’s Armies, how long before you have compassion on Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah which you have been so angry with for these seventy years?”
- Ps 83:1 : 1 A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!
- Ps 89:46-51 : 46 How long, O LORD, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire? 47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal? 48 No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol.(Selah) 49 Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David? 50 Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people! 51 Your enemies, O LORD, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.
- Rev 6:10 : 10 They cried out with a loud voice,“How long, Sovereign Master, holy and true, before you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?”
- Ps 79:5 : 5 How long will this go on, O LORD? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?
- Ps 80:3-4 : 3 O God, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered! 4 O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?
- Ps 10:1 : 1 Why, LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble?
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9LORD, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!
10Your chosen cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem, a desolate ruin.
11Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.
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23Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever!
24Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?
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19Then I said,“LORD, have you completely rejected the nation of Judah? Do you despise the city of Zion? Why have you struck us with such force that we are beyond recovery? We hope for peace, but nothing good has come of it. We hope for a time of relief from our troubles, but experience terror.
20LORD, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.
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7No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.
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12ל(Lamed) Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine? The Lord has afflicted me, he has inflicted it on me when he burned with anger.
13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.
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13“Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.
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4O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?
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15Look down from heaven and take notice, from your holy, majestic palace! Where are your zeal and power? Do not hold back your tender compassion!
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46How long, O LORD, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?
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1For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a prayer of David written to instruct others. It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down 12,000Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!
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5How long will this go on, O LORD? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?
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12Oracle of Deliverance to Judah This is what the LORD says:“Even though they are powerful– and what is more, even though their army is numerous– nevertheless, they will be destroyed and trickle away! Although I afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
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17Let the priests, those who serve the LORD, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say,“Have pity, O LORD, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples,“Where is their God?”
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8So put on sackcloth! Mourn and wail, saying,‘The fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us!’”
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16O Lord, according to all your justice, please turn your raging anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain. For due to our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people are mocked by all our neighbors.
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22Finally the LORD could no longer endure your wicked deeds and the disgusting things you did. That is why your land has become the desolate, uninhabited ruin that it is today. That is why it has become a proverbial example used in curses.
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10The Lord Promises Exile(But Also Restoration)“When you tell these people about all this, they will undoubtedly ask you,‘Why has the LORD threatened us with such great disaster? What wrong have we done? What sin have we done to offend the LORD our God?’
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14“I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp.
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43ס(Samek) You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.
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4How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“God will not see what happens to us.”
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5Will you stay mad at us forever? Will you remain angry throughout future generations?
6Will you not revive us once more? Then your people will rejoice in you!
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3I am absolutely terrified, and you, LORD– how long will this continue?
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22unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
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15Why do you complain about your injuries, that your pain is incurable? I have done all this to you because your wickedness is so great and your sin is so much.
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11You led us into a trap; you caused us to suffer.
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1For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments, according to the sheminith style; a psalm of David. LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger! Do not discipline me in your raging fury!
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20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
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4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?
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11Have you not rejected us, O God? O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.
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1For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me?
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19Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.
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8The LORD was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
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1The People of Jerusalem Pray: O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.
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17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.
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20ר(Resh)Jerusalem Speaks: Look, O LORD! Consider! Whom have you ever afflicted like this? Should women eat their offspring, their healthy infants? Should priest and prophet be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
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11I replied,“How long, Lord?” He said,“Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,
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32“So now, our God– the great, powerful, and awesome God, who keeps covenant fidelity– do not regard as inconsequential all the hardship that has befallen us– our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people– from the days of the kings of Assyria until this very day!
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5You assist those who delight in doing what is right, who observe your commandments. Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?
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51‘We are ashamed because we have been insulted. Our faces show our disgrace. For foreigners have invaded the holy rooms in the LORD’s temple.’
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2How long, LORD, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you,“Violence!” But you do not deliver!
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1A psalm of David, written to get God’s attention. O LORD, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger! Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury!
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19For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem you will weep no more. When he hears your cry of despair, he will indeed show you mercy; when he hears it, he will respond to you.