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Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » Sometimes prolonged
My soul is also greatly troubled: but you, O LORD, how long?
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?
Lord, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my precious life from the lions.
How long, LORD? will you be angry forever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!
Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these threescore and ten years?
Apparent injustice » Sometimes attributed to God
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!
The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that swears, as he that fears an oath.
Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Christian ministers » Discouragements of
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.
Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. Like adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save! Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention.
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they took offense at him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
And he said, Verily, I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
Injustice » Sometimes attributed to God
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!
The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that swears, as he that fears an oath.
Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Partiality » Sometimes attributed to God
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!
The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly.
Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his wickedness.
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifices not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that swears, as he that fears an oath.
Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.
Prayer » Answer to, delayed
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
And shall not God avenge his own elect, who cry day and night unto him, though he bears long with them?
[To the Chief Musician upon aijeleth shahar. A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?
Prayer » Habakkuk
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!
Punishment » Delayed
God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abides of old. Selah. Because they do not change, therefore they fear not God.
These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.
Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But you have ignored all my counsel, and would have none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes; read more.
When your terror comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would have none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
When your terror comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would have none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, who fear before him: But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save! Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention. Therefore the law is slacked, and justice does never go forth: for the wicked does surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.
Trials » Sometimes prolonged
My soul is also greatly troubled: but you, O LORD, how long?
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?
Lord, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my precious life from the lions.
How long, LORD? will you be angry forever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out unto you of violence, and you will not save!
Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these threescore and ten years?