Psalms 88:2

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

Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

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

Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

“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.”

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.

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

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

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

“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”

This thing isn’t good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh’s anointed. Now see where the king’s spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.”

God is my rock in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge. My savior, you save me from violence.

“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

For I hope in you, Yahweh. You will answer, Lord my God.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.

As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.

My salvation and my honor is with God. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.

Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

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.

Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?

But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.