Isaiah 64:12
Good News Translation
LORD, are you unmoved by all this? Are you going to do nothing and make us suffer more than we can endure?

New Revised Standard Version
After all this, will you restrain yourself, O LORD? Will you keep silent, and punish us so severely?

Contemporary English Version
When you see these things, how can you just sit there and make us suffer more?

New American Bible
Can you hold back, LORD, after all this? Can you remain silent, and afflict us so severely?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?

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Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?

Isaiah 42:14 I have always held my peace, I have kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once.

Psalm 10:1 Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble?

Psalm 74:10,11,18,19 How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever? . . .

Psalm 79:5 How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?

Psalm 80:3,4 Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved. . . .

Psalm 83:1 A canticle of a psalm for Asaph. [2] O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.

Psalm 89:46-51 How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire? . . .

Zechariah 1:12 And the angel of the Lord answered, and said: O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Juda, with which thou hast been angry? this is now the seventieth year.

Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

Context
A Prayer for God's Power
11The house of our holiness, and of our glory, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt with fire, and all our lovely things are turned into ruins. 12Wilt thou refrain thyself, O Lord, upon these things, wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us vehemently?
Cross References
Psalm 74:10
How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?

Psalm 74:11
Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?

Isaiah 42:14
I have always held my peace, I have kept silence, I have been patient, I will speak now as a woman in labour: I will destroy, and swallow up at once.

Isaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back themselves from me.

Isaiah 65:6
Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will render and repay into their bosom.

Isaiah 64:11
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