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Habakkuk 1:2
Habakkuk 1:2 is verse 2 of Habakkuk chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
King James Version
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
World English Bible
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
“Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.
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Habakkuk 1:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:
2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
3 Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 13:1How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Psalms 13:2How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?
Psalms 74:9There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
Psalms 94:3How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?
Revelation 6:10And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”
Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
Psalms 22:2I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
Jeremiah 14:9Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
Lamentations 3:8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.