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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
- Jonah 2:7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
- Ps 116:4Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
- Ps 34:15–17The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
- Ps 120:1In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
- Exod 3:7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
- Ps 27:4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
- Hab 2:20But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
- Ps 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
- Jonah 2:4Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
- Jas 5:4Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
- Matt 26:38–39Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
- Heb 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
- 1 Kgs 8:28–30Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
- Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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God's covenant with David — a son whose throne and kingdom would last forever (7:12–16) — finds its yes in Jesus, the Son of David who reigns without end.
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