Psalms 77:2

In trouble Asaph sought the Lord through the night with hands outstretched, his soul refusing comfort.

Cross-references · 28

• Ps 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
• Isa 26:9My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
• Gen 37:35All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
• Isa 26:16O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
• Heb 5:7During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
• Esth 4:1–4When Mordecai learned of all that had happened, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.
• Jonah 2:1–2From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
• Hos 5:13When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
• Ps 102:1–2A prayer of one who is afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.
• Jer 31:15This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
• Ps 38:3–8There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
• Ps 18:6In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
• Hos 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
• Isa 1:5–6Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
• Gen 32:7–12In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.
• Job 11:13As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,
• Gen 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
• Ps 88:1–3A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You.
• Ps 86:7In the day of my distress I call on You, because You answer me.
• 2 Chr 6:28When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
• 2 Kgs 19:3–4to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
• John 11:31When the Jews who were in the house consoling Mary saw how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
• Ps 130:1–2A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!
• Ps 63:6When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
• Prov 18:14The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?
• Ps 6:2–3Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
• 2 Kgs 19:15–20And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
• 2 Cor 12:7–8or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

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