Habakkuk 1:2
How long, O LORD, must I call for help
What it says
Habakkuk asks how long he must cry for help over violence without receiving rescue.
What it is doing
This verse begins the prophet's complaint about divine delay.
In context
1This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision: 2How long, O LORD, must I call for help 3Why do You make me see iniquity? 4Therefore the law is paralyzed,