Exodus 22:23

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

David 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.

Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his rooms by injustice; who uses his neighbor’s service without wages, and doesn’t give him his hire;

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.

then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven, your dwelling place, and maintain their cause;

For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

In 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.

May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

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

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

God heard the voice of the boy. The angel of God called to Hagar out of the sky, and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Don’t be afraid. For God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.

Yahweh 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.

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.