Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible




O Lord God of hosts,
How long will You be angry with the prayers of Your people?


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.


And will not [our just] God defend and avenge His elect [His chosen ones] who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay [in providing justice] on their behalf?

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 answer not; and by night I am not silent or find no rest.


Now after ten days [of prayer] had passed the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.