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Habakkuk 1:2

How long, Lord, have I cried out and without you hearing me! I cry to you, “Violence!” but you do not help.

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In The 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!

In Context

1The message seen by the prophet Habakkuk.

3Why do you make me look upon wickedness and behold trouble? Destruction and violence are before my eyes, and fighting and quarrelling.

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Cross References

Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have you left me, my rescue so far from the words of my roaring?

Psalms 74:9No symbol of ours do we see any more: no prophet is there any more, none is with us who knows how long.

Revelation 6:10They cried in a loud voice – ‘How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, before you will give judgment and avenge our blood on all who are living on the earth?’

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:2-5

Habakkuk It is a very foolish fancy of some of the Jewish rabbin that this prophet was the son of the Shunamite woman that was at first miraculously given, and afterwards raised to life, by Elisha ( 2 Kings iv. ), as they say also that the prophet Jonah was the son of the widow of Zarephath, which Elijah raised to life. It is a more probable conjecture of their modern chronologers that he lived and prophesied in the reign of king Manasseh, when wickedness abounded, and destruction was hastening on, destruction by… Read the whole commentary →

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