Parallel Verses
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?
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.
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.
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!
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 This is the heavy burden, which the Prophet Habakkuk did see. 2 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? 3 Why lettest thou me see weariness and labour? Tyranny and violence are before me, power overgoeth right:
Names
Cross References
Psalm 13:1-2
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? Forever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalm 22:1-2
{To the Chanter, upon Aijeleth of the dawning, a Psalm of David} My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint?
Jeremiah 14:9
Why wilt thou make thyself a coward, and as it were a giant that yet may not help? For thou art ours, O LORD, and we bear thy name; therefore forsake us not."
Psalm 74:9-10
We see not our tokens. There is not one prophet more; no, not one is there among us, that understandeth any more.
Psalm 94:3
LORD, how long shall the ungodly, how long shall the ungodly triumph?
Lamentations 3:8
Though I cry and call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer.
Revelation 6:10
and they cried with a loud voice saying, "How long tarriest thou Lord holy and true, to judge and to avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?"