Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.
Parallel translations
- KJV I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
- BSB In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free.
- NKJV I called on the Lord in distress; The Lord answered me and set me in a broad place.
- NASB ¶From my distress I called upon the Lord; The Lord answered me and put me in an open space.
- NLT In my distress I prayed to the Lord, and the Lord answered me and set me free.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 18:19He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
- 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 120:1A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
- Ps 107:19Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.
- Ps 130:1–2A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
- Ps 31:8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
- 1 Sam 30:6–8David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
- Ps 107:13Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
- Ps 40:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
- Mark 14:31–36But he spoke all the more, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” They all said the same thing.
- Ps 116:3–4The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
- Ps 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
- Gen 32:7Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
- Gen 32:9–11Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
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