Verse from Habakkuk

“他说：耶和华啊！我呼求你，你不应允，要到几时呢？我因强暴哀求你，你还不拯救。”

哈巴谷书 1:2 

“How long, O LORD, will I call for help, And You will not hear? I cry out to You, "Violence!" Yet You do not save.”

Habakkuk 1:2 

Are you waiting on God? The prophet Habakkuk was well acquainted with that feeling. In the seventh century bc, he cried out to the Lord (Hab. 1:2–3). He prayed for a long time, struggling to reconcile how a just and powerful God could allow wickedness, injustice, and corruption to continue in Judah. As far as Habakkuk was concerned, God should have already intervened. Why was God doing nothing?

Like Habakkuk, the psalmist David understood that life’s challenges get harder the longer they last. David asked “How long?” four times in just two verses, “How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?” (Ps. 13:1–2, emphasis added).

When you struggle, can you identify with Habakkuk and David? Does it feel like help is far away? Consider Lamentations 3:22–23, and let it encourage you to trust in God’s faithful care.