Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Lord, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out their prayer while thy chastening was upon them.

New American Standard Bible

O Lord, they sought You in distress;
They could only whisper a prayer,
Your chastening was upon them.

King James Version

LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Holman Bible

Lord, they went to You in their distress;
they poured out whispered prayers
because Your discipline fell on them.

International Standard Version

LORD, they came to you in distress; they poured out their secret prayer when your chastenings were afflicting them.

A Conservative Version

LORD, in trouble they have visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening was upon them.

American Standard Version

Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Amplified


O Lord, they sought You in distress;
They managed only a prayerful whisper
When Your discipline was upon them.

Bible in Basic English

Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.

Darby Translation

Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out their whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Julia Smith Translation

O Jehovah, in straits they looked after thee; they poured out a whispering thy correction to them.

King James 2000

LORD, in trouble have they visited you, they poured out a prayer when your chastening was upon them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh, in distress they have visited you; they poured out an {incantation}; your discipline [was] on them.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah, in trouble they have visited You; they poured out a prayer; Your chastening was on them.

NET Bible

O Lord, in distress they looked for you; they uttered incantations because of your discipline.

New Heart English Bible

LORD, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

The Emphasized Bible

O Yahweh! in distress, they sought thee, - They poured out a whispered prayer, when thy chastening was upon them.

Webster

LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

World English Bible

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

Youngs Literal Translation

O Jehovah, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured out a whisper, Thy chastisement is on them.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
in trouble
צר צר 
Tsar 
Usage: 109

צוּק 
Tsuwq 
Usage: 3

a prayer
לחשׁ 
Lachash 
Usage: 5

Context Readings

Yahweh's People Vindicated

15 Again, thou increasest the people, O LORD, thou increasest the people. Thou shalt be praised and magnified in all the ends of the world. 16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out their prayer while thy chastening was upon them. 17 Like as a woman with child, when her travail cometh upon her, is sorry and crieth in her pains: Even so are we, O LORD, in thy sight.


Cross References

Hosea 5:15

I will go, and return to my place, till they wax faint, and seek me.

Deuteronomy 4:29-30

Neverthelater, ye shall seek the LORD your God even there, and shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul.

Judges 10:9-10

Moreover, the children of Ammon went over Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim: so that Israel was sore cumbered.

1 Samuel 1:15

Hannah answered, and said, "Not so, my lord. I am a woman sorrowful in mine heart, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

2 Chronicles 6:37-38

yet if their hearts come to them again in the land where they be in captivity, and turn and pray unto thee in the land where they be in captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and have done evil and wickedly,'

2 Chronicles 33:12-13

And when he was in tribulation he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers,

Psalm 42:4

Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself; for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God, in the voice of praise and thanksgiving, among such as keep holy-day.

Psalm 50:15

And call upon me in the time of trouble; so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me."

Psalm 77:1-2

{To the Chanter, for Jeduthun, a Psalm of Asaph} I cried unto God with my voice; yea, even unto God cried I with my voice, and he heard me.

Psalm 91:15

When he calleth upon me, I shall hear him: Yea I am with him in his trouble; whereout I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.

Psalm 142:2

I pour out my complaint before him, and show him of my trouble.

Isaiah 37:3

and they said unto him, "Thus sayeth Hezekiah, 'This is the day of trouble, of plague, and of wrath: like as when a child cometh to the birth, but the woman hath no power to bring it forth.

Jeremiah 22:23

thou that dwellest upon Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the Cedar's trees. O how great shall thy mourning be, when thy sorrows come upon thee, as a woman travailing with child?

Lamentations 2:19

{Kuf} Stand up and make thy prayer in the first watch of the night; pour out thine heart like water before the LORD. Lift up thine hands for the lives of thy young children that die of hunger in the streets.

Hosea 7:14

They call not upon me with their hearts, but lie howling upon their beds. Whereas they come together, it is but for meat and drink, and me will they not obey.

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be fervent therefore and repent.

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