צָרָה
tsa.rah
distress
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Occurrences in Scripture
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Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
Genesis 42:21They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
Genesis 42:21They said to one another, “We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn’t listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us.”
Deuteronomy 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’
Deuteronomy 31:21It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”
Judges 10:14Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them save you in the time of your distress!”
1 Samuel 10:19But you have today rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.”
1 Samuel 26:24Behold, as your life was respected today in my eyes, so let my life be respected in Yahweh’s eyes, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.”
2 Samuel 4:9David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
1 Kings 1:29The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
2 Kings 19:3They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
2 Chronicles 15:6They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
2 Chronicles 20:9‘If evil comes on us—the sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this house, and before you (for your name is in this house), and cry to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’
Nehemiah 9:27Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hands of their adversaries.
Nehemiah 9:37It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Job 5:19He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
Job 27:9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
Psalms 20:1May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,
Psalms 22:11Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.
Psalms 25:17The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
Psalms 25:22Redeem Israel, God, out of all his troubles.
Psalms 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.
Psalms 34:6This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Psalms 34:17The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 37:39But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalms 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Psalms 54:7For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
Psalms 71:20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
Psalms 78:49He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
Psalms 81:7You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
Psalms 86:7In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
Psalms 91:15He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Psalms 116:3The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 120:1In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
Psalms 138:7Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
Psalms 142:2I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.
Psalms 143:11Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
Proverbs 1:27when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come on you.
Proverbs 11:8A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.
Proverbs 12:13An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.
Proverbs 17:17A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 21:23Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
Proverbs 24:10If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
Proverbs 25:19Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.
Isaiah 8:22and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
Isaiah 30:6The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
Isaiah 33:2Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Isaiah 37:3They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.