'How Long' in the Bible

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

Yahweh said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

"How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you."

Yahweh said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons."

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?"

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.

The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), "For how long shall your journey be? And when will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

"How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh -- how long?

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

"How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

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

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?

You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you be quiet? Put up yourself into your scabbard; rest, and be still.

Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision [concerning] the continual [burnt offering], and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot?

One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?

Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?

Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"