15 Bible Verses about Cries Of Distress To God
Most Relevant Verses
Yea, even upon thee do I call; help me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
{A song of the stairs} When I am in trouble, I call upon the LORD, and he answereth me.
{A song of the stairs} Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD; LORD, hear my voice.
{Kuf} I call with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD. I will keep thy statutes.
Now when I preached, Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, "O LORD God, wilt thou then utterly destroy all the remnant in Israel?"
And why? For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.
Insomuch that they have caused the voice of the poor to come unto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in necessity.
If ye shall trouble them, they shall cry unto me, and I will surely hear their cry;
For that is his coverlet only: even the raiment for his skin wherein he sleepeth: or else he will cry unto me and I will hear him, for I am merciful.
"Tomorrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin: him shalt thou anoint to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines, for I have looked upon my people and their cry is come unto me."
And he said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cryeth unto me out of the earth.
And it chanced, in process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried.
Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow,
Now therefore behold, the complaint of the children of Israel is come unto me and I have also seen the oppression, wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
Therefore will I also do something in my wrathful displeasure: so that mine eye shall not oversee them, neither will I spare them. Yea, and though they cry in mine ears with loud voice, yet will I not hear them."
