24 Bible Verses about Before God Acts

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, 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?

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

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

They cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

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.

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

My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

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

"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.

Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me."

He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."

Jesus answered, "Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here."

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

How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

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

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?"

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

The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, "How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

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?