Verse 2

How long, LORD, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you,“Violence!” But you do not deliver!

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 14:9 : 9 Why should you be like someone who is helpless, like a champion who cannot save anyone? You are indeed with us, and we belong to you. Do not abandon us!”
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
  • Ps 13:1-2 : 1 For 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? 2 How long must I worry, and suffer in broad daylight? How long will my enemy gloat over me?
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 For the music director; according to the tune“Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away. 2 My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
  • Ps 74:9-9 : 9 We do not see any signs of God’s presence; there are no longer any prophets and we have no one to tell us how long this will last. 10 How long, O God, will the adversary hurl insults? Will the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
  • Ps 94:3 : 3 O LORD, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate?
  • 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?”