Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Return, O Jehovah! How long? And give pity to Your servants.

New American Standard Bible

Do return, O Lord; how long will it be?
And be sorry for Your servants.

King James Version

Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

Holman Bible

Lord—how long?
Turn and have compassion on Your servants.

International Standard Version

Please return, LORD! When will it be? Comfort your servants.

A Conservative Version

Return, O LORD. How long? And relent concerning thy servants.

American Standard Version

Return, O Jehovah; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

Amplified


Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be?
Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.

Darby Translation

Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

Julia Smith Translation

Turn back, O Jehovah, how long? and have pity upon thy servants.

King James 2000

Return, O LORD, how long? and may you have compassion concerning your servants.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Return, O Yahweh. How long? And have compassion on your servants.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Turn thee again, O LORD, at the last, and be gracious unto thy servants.

NET Bible

Turn back toward us, O Lord! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

New Heart English Bible

Relent, LORD. How long? Have compassion on your servants.

The Emphasized Bible

Return, Yahweh, oh how long? And have compassion upon thy servants;

Webster

Return, O LORD, how long? and repent thou concerning thy servants.

World English Bible

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Youngs Literal Translation

Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

References

Context Readings

Eternal God And Mortal Man

12 So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom. 13 Return, O Jehovah! How long? And give pity to Your servants. 14 Satisfy us early with Your mercy, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:36

For Jehovah will bring His people justice; and He shall have compassion on His servants, for He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain.

Psalm 135:14

For Jehovah will judge His people, and He will have pity on His servants.

Psalm 106:45

and He remembered His covenant for them, and was moved to pity, according to the multitude of His mercies.

Psalm 80:14

Return, we beg You, O God of Hosts; look down from Heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

Amos 7:3

Jehovah repented for this; It shall not be, says Jehovah.

Amos 7:6

Jehovah repented for this; This also shall not be, says the Lord Jehovah.

Jonah 3:9

Who knows? He may repent, and God may have pity and turn away from the glow of His anger, so that we do not perish.

Exodus 32:12

Why should the Egyptians speak and say, He brought them out for harm, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and be moved to pity as to this evil against Your people.

Exodus 32:14

And Jehovah repented as to the evil which He spoke of doing to His people.

Psalm 6:3-4

My soul also is exceedingly troubled; but You, O Jehovah, how long?

Psalm 74:10

O God, how long shall the enemy speak evil? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?

Psalm 89:46

How long, Jehovah? Will You hide Yourself forever? Shall Your wrath burn like fire?

Jeremiah 12:15

And it will be after I have plucked them out, I will return and have pity on them, and will bring them again, each man to his inheritance and each man to his land.

Hosea 11:8

How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver you, Israel? How shall I make you like Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassions are kindled together.

Joel 2:13-14

Yes, tear your heart and not your robes, and turn to Jehovah your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He pities because of the evil.

Zechariah 1:16

Therefore so says Jehovah: I have returned to Jerusalem with mercies. My house shall be built in it, says Jehovah of Hosts. And a line shall be stretched over Jerusalem.

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