8 occurrences

'Cry for Help' in the Bible

The Israelites’ cry for help has come to Me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.

Verse ConceptsAnti semitismOppression, Nature OfVisionCries Of Distress To Godisraeloppression

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out for help [though she was] in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s [promised] wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsComing To GatesInstructions About Stoning

Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionemptinessSarcasmPraying AmissCompetition

The people who did not die were struck with sores; the city's cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

In my distress I called [upon] Yahweh, and to my God I called. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help [was] to his ears.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GoddiscouragementHearingPrayer In DiscouragementStressVoicesDistressI PrayThe Temple In HeavenGod Paid Attention To Me

And Judah, turning their faces, saw that they were being attacked in front and at the back; and they gave a cry for help to the Lord, while the priests were sounding their horns.

Verse ConceptsCrying To God

Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

Verse ConceptsHow To Fast

Give now a cry for help; is there anyone who will give you an answer? and to which of the holy ones will you make your prayer?

Verse ConceptsMediatorGod Not Answering

"O earth, you should not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry for help.

Verse ConceptsHuman Blood Shed

From the city, men groan;the mortally wounded cry for help,yet God pays no attention to this crime.

Verse ConceptsPurgatory

I cry for help to you, but you won't answer me; I stand still, but you only look at me.

Verse ConceptsDoubting God's ConcernDoubtGod Not Answering

Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

Verse ConceptsBrokennessDisastersCrying For Help

I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

Verse ConceptsBlackBeggarsThe SunBeggingBlack PeopleCrying For HelpSunshine

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Verse ConceptsArmsSuffering, Hardshipoppression

Will your cry for help sustain [you] without distress, or all [the] efforts of [your] strength?

Verse ConceptsLimitations Of Strengtheffort

Pay attention to my cry for help, my king and my God, for unto you will I pray.

Verse ConceptsDependenceKnowing God, Effects OfPay Attention O God!

For the one who takes revenge against murderers took notice of the oppressed; he did not overlook their cry for help

Verse ConceptsAvenger of bloodSuffering, Of The InnocentGod Remembering The NeedyCries Of Distress To GodGod ReprovingScoffersmindfulness

A prayer of David. Lord, consider my just cause! Pay attention to my cry for help! Listen to the prayer I sincerely offer!

Verse ConceptsThe Lips Of The RighteousLipsRighteousness, Of BelieversPrayer, Offered WithAvoiding DeceitHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!

In my trouble I called on Yahweh, and to my God I cried for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help came up before his presence into his ears.

Verse ConceptsDependenceCalling upon GodBeggarsCordsVoicesHelplessnessCryingI PrayThe Temple In HeavenGod Paid Attention To MeThe First TempleDespair

They cry for help, but there is no one to save them—they cry to the Lord, but He does not answer them.

Verse ConceptsGod Not AnsweringNo One Can Save

When the righteous cry [for help], the Lord hearsAnd rescues them from all their distress and troubles.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAdversityDeliverance, Source OfRighteous, TheGod Pays AttentionGod Answering Prayers

Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimSilenceWeepingPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfSpiritual DeafnessTearsCryingReckoned As ForeignersHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!Feelings Of Alienation

For the music director; to be played on a stringed instrument; written by David. O God, hear my cry for help! Pay attention to my prayer!

Verse ConceptsMusicMusical Instruments, types ofPrayer, Offered WithHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!ancient Choirsinstruments

Listen to my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!

Verse ConceptsHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!

But as for me, I cry for help to you, O Yahweh, and in the morning my prayer comes before you.

Verse ConceptsMorning WorshipI Pray

Yet he took notice of their distress, when he heard their cry for help.

Verse ConceptsCryingGod Paid Attention To Them

Lord, listen to my voice;let Your ears be attentiveto my cry for help.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention O God!supplication

I say to the Lord, “You are my God.”Listen, Lord, to my cry for help.

Verse ConceptsHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!You Are Our God

Listen to my cry for help, for I am in serious trouble! Rescue me from those who chase me, for they are stronger than I am.

Verse ConceptsRescuePay Attention O God!Despairhelping

For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalGod, Will OfHorticultureNeglectOppression, Examples OfMetaphorical VineyardsKilling The InnocentOutcryGardens

For cry for help has encircled the territory of Moab, her wailing [is heard] as far as Eglaim, and her wailing [as far as] Beer Elim.

For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in [the] valley of vision, tearing down of walls and a cry for help to the mountains.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsValleysWallsVisions From God

They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionemptinessHearingProtection, Not Found InShouldersCarrying IdolsIdolatryOthers Not AnsweringSalvation By Other Things

Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer. You shall cry for help, and he will say, 'Here I [am]!' If you remove from among you [the] yoke, the {finger-pointing} and {evil speech},

Verse ConceptsFingersCalling upon GodAnswered PromisesGod Will AnswerBehold Me!rumors

My servants will sing in gladness of heart, but you'll cry for help from anguish of heart, and you'll howl from brokenness of spirit.

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartPromised JoyOthers MourningA Broken Heart

And I will shout in exultation over Jerusalem, and I will rejoice over my people, and [the] sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in it, or [the] sound of a cry for help.

Verse ConceptsGod, Joy OfRest, EternalDivine FavourNon ExistenceNot Mourning

Look, the sound of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a distant land, 'Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her king not in her?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with idols of a foreign land?"

Verse ConceptsProvoking GodGod Opposes IdolatryPeople From Far Away

So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeHearingReceptivenessNo EscapeGod Will Bring Harm

Let a cry for help be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring upon them [the] raiding band, for they have dug a pit to catch me, and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet.

Verse ConceptsTrapSnares Laid for PeopleMan Trapping

For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

Verse ConceptsCriticism, against believersRejection Of GodRejection Of God's WordRejecting God's Wordjoking

And let that man be like the cities that Yahweh demolished without regret, and let him hear a cry for help in the morning, and an alarm at the time of noon.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toNoonThings Like People

Moab is broken, her little ones {make heard} a cry for help.

Verse ConceptsPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

From the cry for help of Heshbon, up to Elealeh, up to Jahaz, they give their voice, from Zoar up to Horonaim, [up to] Eglath-shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim have become as a desolation.

Verse Conceptsdryness

At [the] sound, 'Babylon has been captured,' the earth will quake, and a cry for help among the nations will be heard."

Verse ConceptsBabylon DestroyedCapturing CitiesThe judgment of babylon

[The] sound of a cry for help from Babylon, and a great collapse from the land of [the] Chaldeans.

Verse ConceptsCondemnation Of Babylon

Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

Verse ConceptsDoubting God's Concern

You have heard my cry, "Do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!"

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To MePay Attention O God!breathing

They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsProfessing

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