18 occurrences

'Cry for Help' in the Bible

Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.

Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.

And Judah, turning their faces, saw that they were being attacked in front and at the back; and they gave a cry for help to the Lord, while the priests were sounding their horns.

Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

Give now a cry for help; is there anyone who will give you an answer? and to which of the holy ones will you make your prayer?

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.

For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.

So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

For every word I say is a cry for help; I say with a loud voice, Violent behaviour and wasting: because the word of the Lord is made a shame to me and a cause of laughing all the day.

May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain