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 on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
• Isa 26:9With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
• Gen 37:35All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, “For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning.” His father wept for him.
• Isa 26:16Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
• Heb 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
• Esth 4:1–4Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.
• Jonah 2:1–2Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly.
• Hos 5:13“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
• Ps 102:1–2A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh. Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
• Jer 31:15Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”
• Ps 38:3–8There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
• 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.
• Hos 6:1“Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
• Isa 1:5–6Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
• Gen 32:7–12Then 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;
• Job 11:13“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
• Gen 32:28He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
• Ps 88:1–3A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
• Ps 86:7In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
• 2 Chr 6:28“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;
• 2 Kgs 19:3–4They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
• John 11:31Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”
• Ps 130:1–2A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
• Ps 63:6when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
• Prov 18:14A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?
• Ps 6:2–3Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
• 2 Kgs 19:15–20Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
• 2 Cor 12:7–8By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

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