Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » Sometimes prolonged
My soul is also very terrified. But you, O Yahweh, how long?
How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
My Lord, how long will you watch? Restore my life from their ravages, my only [life] from [the] young lions.
How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
O Yahweh God [of] hosts, {how long will you be angry} against the prayer of your people?
How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire [forever]?
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?
The angel of Yahweh answered and said, "O Yahweh of hosts, {how long} will you have no compassion on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, [with] which you showed fury these seventy years?"
Seventy » The jews in captivity in babylon for seventy years
The angel of Yahweh answered and said, "O Yahweh of hosts, {how long} will you have no compassion on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, [with] which you showed fury these seventy years?"
For thus says Yahweh, '{As soon as the time has passed}, seventy years for Babylon, I will attend to you, and I will fulfill my good word to you, to bring you back to this place.
in [the] first year [of] his kingship I, Daniel, observed in the scrolls the number of the years that it was [that were] to be fulfilled [according to] [the] word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet for the devastation of Jerusalem--seventy years.
"Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: 'When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?
And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. {And then} when [the] seventy years [are] fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' {declares} Yahweh, 'for their iniquity, and [the] land of [the] Chaldeans, and I will make it {an everlasting waste}.
Trials » Sometimes prolonged
My soul is also very terrified. But you, O Yahweh, how long?
How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
My Lord, how long will you watch? Restore my life from their ravages, my only [life] from [the] young lions.
How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
O Yahweh God [of] hosts, {how long will you be angry} against the prayer of your people?
How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire [forever]?
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?
The angel of Yahweh answered and said, "O Yahweh of hosts, {how long} will you have no compassion on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, [with] which you showed fury these seventy years?"