Exodus 3:7

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.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

He, 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,

He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

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.

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

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

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.

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

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

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

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.

“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

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

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

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

Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

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.

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

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.

Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

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.

The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

Then we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers. Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.

“Turn back, and tell Hezekiah the prince of my people, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day, you will go up to Yahweh’s house.

The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

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

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

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

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

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.

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for all, slave and free, and there was no helper for Israel.

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

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

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.

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, “Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”

God listened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.

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

There will be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been, nor will be any more.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

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.

“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

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 there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

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

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

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

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

It will be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of Armies in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them.

“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

I will encamp around my house against the army, that no one pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.