Isaiah 64:12
Will thou restrain thyself for these things, O LORD? Will thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very severely?
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Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever?
Psalms 79:5How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Psalms 83:1O God, keep thou not silence. Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Isaiah 42:14I have for a long time held my peace. I have been still, and refrained myself. [Now] I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will gasp and pant together.
Revelation 6:10And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 64:7-12
Humble Confession. ( b. c. 706.) 6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8 But now, O Lord , thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 9 Be not wroth very… Read the whole commentary →