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Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:13 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Then they cried unto the LORD 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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Quick answer

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 to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.
  • Ps 107:6Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,
  • Judg 6:6–10Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
  • Judg 4:3The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.
  • 2 Chr 33:12–13When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
  • Ps 18:6In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
  • Ps 116:3–6The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Exod 3:7–8Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
  • Ps 107:19Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.
  • 2 Chr 33:18–19Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.
  • Jer 31:18–20“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
  • Judg 10:10–18The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 107:13 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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