2How long, O Lord , must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save?
2How long, O Lord , must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save?
1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet received.
2 How long, O Lord , must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save?
3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
1:2O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out unto thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not save!
1:2Jehovah, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee, Violence! and thou dost not save.
1:2How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save?
1:2O Jehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save.
1:2O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save.
1:2O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out to thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
1:2Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you |Violence!| and will you not save?
1:2Till when, O Jehovah, have I cried, And Thou dost not hear? I cry unto Thee — 'Violence,' and Thou dost not save.
1:2O LORD, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear! even cry out to you of violence, and you will not save!