LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
- BSB O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
- NKJV Lord, in trouble they have visited You, They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.
- NASB Lord, they sought You in distress; They could only whisper a prayer, Your discipline was upon them.
- NLT Lord, in distress we searched for you. We prayed beneath the burden of your discipline.
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Quick answer
In their distress and discipline the people turned to God in prayer, showing affliction can drive us to seek Him.
Overview
The verse confesses that it was in trouble and under God's chastening that the people sought Him, pouring out whispered prayer. Hardship is portrayed as God's fatherly discipline meant to turn His people back to Himself. This reflects the gospel pattern that God uses affliction to draw sinners to dependence on Him rather than self.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
- Ps 50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
- Ps 91:15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- 2 Chr 33:12–13And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
- Lam 2:19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
- Ps 42:4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
- 2 Chr 6:37–38Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
- 1 Sam 1:15And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
- Isa 37:3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
- Judg 10:9–10Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
- Ps 77:1–2I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
- Ps 142:2I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
- Deut 4:29–30But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
- Hos 7:14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
- Jer 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
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