Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Isaiah 64:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Considering these [calamities], will You restrain Yourself, O Lord [and not come to our aid]? Will You keep silent and not command our deliverance but humble and afflict us exceedingly? American Standard Version (1901) Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? Common English Bible After all this, will you hold back, LORD? Will you keep silent and torment us so terribly? Catholic Public Domain Version Should you restrain yourself, O Lord, concerning these things? Should you remain silent, and afflict us vehemently? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things? Wilt thou hold thy peace and afflict us vehemently? |
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
How long, O LORD, wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.
Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy mighty acts? the yearning of thy bowels and thy compassions are restrained toward me.
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yea, I will recompense into their bosom,
Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?