Isaiah 64:12

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“After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?”

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BSBPD

“After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For these dost Thou refrain Thyself, Jehovah? Thou art silent, and dost afflict us very sore!'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 64:12 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Psalms 10:1Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
  2. Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
  3. Psalms 74:18Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
  4. Psalms 79:5How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
  5. Psalms 80:3Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
  6. Psalms 83:1O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.
  7. Psalms 89:46How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
  8. Isaiah 42:14“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
  9. Zechariah 1:12Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
  10. Revelation 6:10And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”

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