Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
- BSB Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
- NKJV Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, And He saved them out of their distresses.
- NASB Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; He saved them from their distresses.
- NLT “Lord, help!” they cried in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.
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Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distresses.
Overview
The refrain returns: the helpless prisoners cry out, and God saves them. Even those bound by the consequences of rebellion find that a sincere cry to the LORD brings deliverance. This repeated pattern assures every sinner that God hears the cry of the captive and saves, the very heart of redemption in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 107:28Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
- Ps 107:6Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
- Judg 6:6–10And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
- Judg 4:3And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
- 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,
- 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.
- Ps 116:3–6The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- Exod 3:7–8And 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 107:19Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
- 2 Chr 33:18–19Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
- Jer 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
- Judg 10:10–18And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
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