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“I cry out, ‘Help!’ but no one answers me.
    I protest, but there is no justice.

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“Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;(A)
    though I call for help,(B) there is no justice.(C)

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Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

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Habakkuk’s Complaint

How long, O Lord, must I call for help?
    But you do not listen!
“Violence is everywhere!” I cry,
    but you do not come to save.
Must I forever see these evil deeds?
    Why must I watch all this misery?
Wherever I look,
    I see destruction and violence.
I am surrounded by people
    who love to argue and fight.

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Habakkuk’s Complaint

How long,(A) Lord, must I call for help,
    but you do not listen?(B)
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
    but you do not save?(C)
Why do you make me look at injustice?
    Why do you tolerate(D) wrongdoing?(E)
Destruction and violence(F) are before me;
    there is strife,(G) and conflict abounds.

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O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

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And though I cry and shout,
    he has shut out my prayers.

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Even when I call out or cry for help,(A)
    he shuts out my prayer.(B)

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Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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20 “I cry to you, O God, but you don’t answer.
    I stand before you, but you don’t even look.

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20 “I cry out to you,(A) God, but you do not answer;(B)
    I stand up, but you merely look at me.

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20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

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When I speak, the words burst out.
    “Violence and destruction!” I shout.
So these messages from the Lord
    have made me a household joke.

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Whenever I speak, I cry out
    proclaiming violence and destruction.(A)
So the word of the Lord has brought me
    insult and reproach(B) all day long.

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For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

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Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer.
    Every night I lift my voice, but I find no relief.

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My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,(A)
    by night,(B) but I find no rest.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:2 Or night, and am not silent

O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

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“Will you discredit my justice
    and condemn me just to prove you are right?

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“Would you discredit my justice?(A)
    Would you condemn me to justify yourself?(B)

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Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

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For Job also said, ‘I am innocent,
    but God has taken away my rights.

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“Job says, ‘I am innocent,(A)
    but God denies me justice.(B)

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For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

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35 “If only someone would listen to me!
    Look, I will sign my name to my defense.
Let the Almighty answer me.
    Let my accuser write out the charges against me.
36 I would face the accusation proudly.
    I would wear it like a crown.

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35 (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me!(A)
    I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me;
    let my accuser(B) put his indictment in writing.
36 Surely I would wear it on my shoulder,(C)
    I would put it on like a crown.(D)

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35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

36 Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

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