15 Bible Verses about Cries Of Distress To God
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[A song of ascents.] In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep your statutes.
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
When he avenges blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he hears the cry of the afflicted.
If you afflict them in any way, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;
For that is his only covering, it is his clothing for his skin: in what shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he cries unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come unto me.
And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries unto me from the ground.
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaned by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
Therefore will I also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
