Psalms 94:3

New Living Translation

How long, O Lord ? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat?

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
O Lord , how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Lord how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, how long will the wicked—how long will the wicked celebrate?

Hebrew Names Version
LORD, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , how long will the wicked have their fun? How much longer?

Amplified Bible
O LORD, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked rejoice in triumph?

American Standard Version
Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?

Contemporary English Version
How long will the wicked celebrate and be glad?

Complete Jewish Bible
How long are the wicked, Adonai , how long are the wicked to triumph?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

King James Version (1611)
Lord, how long shall the wicked? how long shall the wicked triumph?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast?

English Revised Version
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Berean Standard Bible
How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?

Lexham English Bible
How long will the wicked, O Yahweh, how long will the wicked exult?

Literal Translation
Until when shall the wicked, O Jehovah, until when shall the wicked exult?

New Century Version
How long will the wicked be happy? How long, Lord ?

New English Translation
O Lord , how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked celebrate?

New King James Version
LORD, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?

New Life Bible
How long will the sinful, O Lord, how long will the sinful be full of joy?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How long shall the lawless, O Yahweh, How long shall the lawless exult?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(93-3) How long shall sinners, O Lord: how long shall sinners glory?

George Lamsa Translation
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked boast?

Good News Translation
How much longer will the wicked be glad? How much longer, Lord ?

New American Standard Bible
How long, LORD, shall the wicked— How long shall the wicked triumph?

King James Version
Lord , how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
O God howe long shall the vngodly: howe long shall the vngodly triumph?

New Revised Standard
O Lord , how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

Darby Translation
How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, hou longe synneris; hou longe schulen synneris haue glorie?

Young's Literal Translation
Till when [do] the wicked, O Jehovah? Till when do the wicked exult?

World English Bible
Yahweh, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?

Revised Standard Version
O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?

Update Bible Version
Yahweh, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?

Webster's Bible Translation
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

Bible in Basic English
How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
LORDE, how longe shal the vngodly, how longe shal the vngodly tryumphe?

THE MESSAGE
God , the wicked get away with murder— how long will you let this go on? They brag and boast and crow about their crimes!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
How long shall the wicked, O Lord , How long shall the wicked exult?

Legacy Standard Bible
How long shall the wicked, O Yahweh,How long shall the wicked exult?

Contextual Overview

¹ O Lord , the God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, let your glorious justice shine forth! ² Arise, O Judge of the earth. Give the proud what they deserve. ³ How long, O Lord ? How long will the wicked be allowed to gloat? ⁴ How long will they speak with arrogance? How long will these evil people boast? ⁵ They crush your people, Lord , hurting those you claim as your own. ⁶ They kill widows and foreigners and murder orphans. ⁷ "The Lord isn't looking," they say, "and besides, the God of Israel doesn't care." ⁸ Think again, you fools! When will you finally catch on? ⁹ Is he deaf—the one who made your ears? Is he blind—the one who formed your eyes? ¹⁰ He punishes the nations—won't he also punish you? He knows everything—doesn't he also know what you are doing?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lord: Psalms 43:2, Psalms 73:8, Psalms 74:9, Psalms 74:10, Psalms 79:5, Psalms 80:4, Psalms 89:46, Jeremiah 12:1, Jeremiah 12:2, Jeremiah 47:6, Revelation 6:10

the wicked: Esther 5:11, Esther 5:12, Esther 6:6-10, Esther 7:6, Esther 7:10, Job 20:5, Acts 12:22, Acts 12:23

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert Job 7:19 - How long Psalms 13:1 - How Psalms 25:2 - let not Psalms 35:17 - how Psalms 94:15 - But Isaiah 6:11 - Lord Lamentations 5:20 - dost Habakkuk 1:2 - how Habakkuk 1:4 - for Habakkuk 2:6 - how

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lord, how long shall the wicked,.... The reign of antichrist is thought long by the saints, being the space of forty two months, or 1260 days or years and this tries the faith and patience of the church of Christ, Revelation 13:5

how long shall the wicked triumph? in their prosperity, and in the ruins of the interest of Christ; the Targum is,

"how long shall they sit in tranquillity, or prosperity?''

the triumphing of the wicked may seem long, but it is but short,

Job 20:5, the inhabitants of the Romish jurisdiction will triumph when the witnesses are slain, and send gifts to one another, as a token of their joy; but this will not last long, no more than three days, or three years and a half; and while antichrist is saying, I sit a queen, and shall know no sorrow, her plagues shall come upon her in one day,

Revelation 11:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lord, how long shall the wicked ... - As if there were to be no end to their exaltation; their joy; their success. How long would God allow this? How long would he sit by and see it done? Was he disposed to let them go on forever? Would he never interpose, and arrest them in their career? How often do we wonder that God does not interpose! How often does it seem inexplicable that a Being of almighty power and infinite goodness does not interfere with respect to the wickedness, the oppression, the slavery, the wrong, the cruelty, the fraud, the violence of the world - and put an end to it! Nay, how entirely are we overwhelmed at the thought that he does not put an end to iniquity in the universe altogether; that he never “will” thus interpose, and put an end to sin and sorrow! Such things are too high for us now; perhaps will be always so. Things on earth are not as we should suppose they would be; and we can only pause and adore where we cannot comprehend!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 94:3. How long shall the wicked triumph? — The wicked are often in prosperity; and this only shows us of how little worth riches are in the sight of God, when he bestows them on the most contemptible of mortals. But their time and prosperity have their bounds.