'How Long' in the Bible
O Jerusalem, cleanse your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
How long shall I see the banner and hear the sound of the ram's horn?
How long shall the land mourn, and the grass of every field wither from the evil of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds have been destroyed, because they said, He shall not see our last end.
I have seen your adulteries, and your neighings, the wickedness of your fornication, and your abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! Will you not be made clean? How long will it still be?
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? But they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart,
How long will you turn to and fro, O faithless daughter? For Jehovah has created a new thing in the land; a woman shall enclose a man.
Baldness has come on Gaza. Ashkelon is cut off with the rest of their valley. How long will you cut yourself?
O sword of Jehovah, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself into your sheath; rest and be still.