Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
Isaiah 64:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Will you refrain yourself for these things, LORD? will you hold your shalom, and afflict us very sore? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
How long, LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
*I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,
Then the angel of the LORD replied, *O LORD of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Yerushalayim and on the cities of Yehudah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?*
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?*