Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou will not hear? I cry out to thee of violence, and thou will not save.
New American Standard Bible
And You will not hear?
I cry out to You, “Violence!”
Yet You do
King James Version
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Holman Bible
and You do not listen
or cry out to You about violence
and You do not save?
International Standard Version
"How long, LORD, must I cry out for help, but you won't listen? I'm crying out to you, "Violence!' but you aren't providing deliverance.
American Standard Version
O Jehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save.
Amplified
O Lord, how long will I call for help
And You will not hear?
I cry out to You, “Violence!”
Yet You do not save.
Bible in Basic English
How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.
Darby Translation
Jehovah, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee, Violence! and thou dost not save.
Julia Smith Translation
How long, O Jehovah, did I cry for help, and thou wilt not bear? I will cry to thee violence, and thou wilt not save.
King James 2000
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!
Lexham Expanded Bible
O Yahweh, how long shall I cry for help and you will not listen? [How long] will I cry out to you, "Violence!" and you will not save?
Modern King James verseion
O Jehovah, until when shall I cry and You will not hear? I cry out to You of violence, and You do not save!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? How long shall I complain unto thee, suffering wrong, and thou wilt not help?
NET Bible
How long, Lord, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, "Violence!" But you do not intervene!
New Heart English Bible
LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence." and will you not save?
The Emphasized Bible
How long, O Yahweh, have I called out, and thou wouldst not hear me? Have I kept crying unto thee of violence, and thou wouldst not save?
Webster
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out to thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
World English Bible
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?
Youngs Literal Translation
Till when, O Jehovah, have I cried, And Thou dost not hear? I cry unto Thee -- 'Violence,' and Thou dost not save.
Themes
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » Sometimes prolonged
Apparent injustice » Sometimes attributed to God
Christian ministers » Discouragements of
Injustice » Sometimes attributed to God
Topics
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Habakkuk 1:2
Images Habakkuk 1:2
Prayers for Habakkuk 1:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Habakkuk's Complaint
1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet saw. 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou will not hear? I cry out to thee of violence, and thou will not save. 3 Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 13:1-2
How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 22:1-2
My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning?
Jeremiah 14:9
Why should thou be as a man frightened, as a mighty man who cannot save? Yet thou, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name. Do not leave us.
Psalm 74:9-10
We do not see our signs. There is no more any prophet, nor is there among us he who knows how long.
Psalm 94:3
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
Lamentations 3:8
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Revelation 6:10
And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?