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12 Bible verses about When God Seems Silent KJV

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me. The complaint is in the Bible, which means it is allowed. These verses do not hurry anyone out of it.

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Psalm 22:1-2 · KJV

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

Psalm 13:1 · KJV

How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Job 23:8-9 · KJV

Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Isaiah 45:15 · KJV

Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

Psalm 77:7-9 · KJV

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

Lamentations 3:8 · KJV

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

Psalm 30:5 · KJV

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Isaiah 40:27-28 · KJV

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

Habakkuk 2:3 · KJV

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

Psalm 27:14 · KJV

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Deuteronomy 31:6 · KJV

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Psalm 139:7-8 · KJV

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

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