Psalms 35:22

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

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

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.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

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

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.

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.

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

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

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.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

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

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help.

First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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.

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.”

“ ‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

“If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can’t find him;

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

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

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

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

As for me also, my eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head.”

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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.”

and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

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

“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.

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

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.

When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,

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

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

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

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.

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.

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

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.

Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it “The Tent of Meeting.” Everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help. Hurry to help me!

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.

I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’