צַר
tsar
distress
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Occurrences in Scripture
31 total occurrences across the text
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.
Judges 11:7Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me, and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”
1 Samuel 13:6When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.
2 Samuel 22:7In 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.
2 Samuel 24:14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
1 Chronicles 21:13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
2 Chronicles 15:4But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
Esther 7:4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
Job 7:11“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 15:24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 36:19Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
Job 38:23which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Psalms 4:1Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms 18:6In 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.
Psalms 32:7You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance.
Psalms 66:14which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
Psalms 106:44Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.
Psalms 107:6Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,
Psalms 107:13Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:19Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.
Psalms 107:28Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.
Psalms 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
Isaiah 5:30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
Isaiah 25:4For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
Isaiah 26:16Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
Isaiah 30:20Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
Isaiah 63:9In 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.
Jeremiah 48:5For they will go up by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping. For at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
Lamentations 1:20“Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.
Ezekiel 30:16I will set a fire in Egypt Sin will be in great anguish. No will be broken up. Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.
Hosea 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”