Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Afflictions » Life tested by the lord » Sometimes prolonged
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?
Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?
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?"
Seventy » The jews in captivity in babylon for seventy years
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?"
For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
"Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.
Trials » Sometimes prolonged
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?
Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.
How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you "Violence!" and will you not save?
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?"