In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.
Parallel translations
- WEB In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.
- KJV In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.
- NKJV In my distress I called upon the Lord, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry entered His ears.
- NASB “In my distress I called upon the Lord, Yes, I called out to my God; And from His temple He heard my voice, And my cry for help came into His ears.
- NLT But in my distress I cried out to the Lord; yes, I cried to my God for help. He heard me from his sanctuary; my cry reached his ears.
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Quick answer
In his distress David cried out, and from his temple God heard his voice. The LORD attends to the prayers of his people in their extremity.
Overview
At the point of greatest danger, David turns to God, and his cry reaches the heavenly sanctuary. The verse assures us that God is never deaf to the desperate prayers of his own. It anchors the song's confidence: deliverance begins with the cry of faith that God always hears.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 18:6In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
- Jonah 2:7As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
- Ps 116:4Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, deliver my soul!”
- Ps 34:15–17The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- Ps 120:1A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
- Exod 3:7The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
- Ps 27:4One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple.
- Hab 2:20But the LORD is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.
- Ps 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
- Jonah 2:4At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
- Jas 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
- Matt 26:38–39Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
- Heb 5:7During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
- 1 Kgs 8:28–30Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
- Luke 22:44And in His anguish, He prayed more earnestly, and His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground.
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