'Answer' in the Bible

Now I know that the Lord gives victory to His anointed;He will answer him from His holy heavenwith mighty victories from His right hand.

Lord, give victory to the king!May He answer us on the day that we call.

My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer,by night, yet I have no rest.

Save me from the lion’s mouth;From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.

For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

To you, LORD, I cry out! My Rock, do not refuse to answer me. If you remain silent, I will become like those who descend into the Pit.

Then you will take delight in the Lord, and he will answer your prayers.

I put my hope in You, Lord;You will answer, Lord my God.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Pay attention to me and answer me.I am restless and in turmoil with my complaint,

God will hear and answer them—Even the one who sits enthroned from of old— Selah.With whom there is no change,And who do not fear God.

By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.

Save with Your right hand, and answer me,so that those You love may be rescued.

For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers; you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name.

By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

But as for me, Lord,my prayer to You is for a time of favor.In Your abundant, faithful love, God,answer me with Your sure salvation.

Answer me, Lord,for Your faithful love is good;in keeping with Your great compassion,turn to me.

Don’t hide Your face from Your servant,for I am in distress.Answer me quickly!

For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.

A Davidic prayer.Listen, Lord, and answer me,for I am poor and needy.

In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

Moses and Aaron among His priests, And Samuel among those proclaiming His name. They are calling unto Jehovah, And He doth answer them.

O Lord our God, You answered them;You were a forgiving God to them,And yet an avenger of their evil deeds.

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.

I will give you praise, for you have given me an answer, and have become my salvation.

I put the record of my ways before you, and you gave me an answer: O give me knowledge of your rules.

So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

ק QofI call with all my heart; answer me, Lord.I will obey Your statutes.

In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.

In the day I called, when Thou dost answer me, Thou dost strengthen me in my soul with strength.

{A Psalm of David.} Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

Answer me quickly, Lord;my spirit fails.Don’t hide Your face from me,or I will be like thosegoing down to the Pit.

Answer ye to Jehovah with thanksgiving, Sing ye to our God with a harp.

He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.

“Because I called and you refused [to answer],I stretched out my hand and no one has paid attention [to my offer];

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

That you may exercise discrimination and discretion (good judgment),And your lips may reserve knowledge and answer wisely [to temptation].

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

The one who gives an answer before he listens—this is foolishness and disgrace for him.

The poor may speak entreaties, but the rich will answer roughly.

He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.

That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

In his own eyes, a slacker is wiserthan seven men who can answer sensibly.

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

A feast is prepared for laughter,and wine makes life happy,and money is the answer for everything.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

He will protest on that day, saying,“I will not be a governor;For in my house there is neither bread nor clothing;You should not make me a judge and ruler of the people.”

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

Cry aloud with thy voice, daughter of Gallim, Give attention, Laish! answer her, Anathoth.

Hyenas will howl in their castles,And jackals in their luxurious palaces.Babylon’s time has nearly come,And her days will not be prolonged.

In answer, all of them will tell you, "You've also become as weak as we are! You have become just like us!'

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

Look! Here come riders, each man with a pair of horses!" They're shouting out the answer: "Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and they have shattered all the images of her gods on the ground!

For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none;their tongues are parched with thirst.I, Yahweh, will answer them;I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counseller, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

This is what the Lord says:I will answer you in a time of favor,and I will help you in the day of salvation.I will keep you, and I will appoint youto be a covenant for the people,to restore the land,to make them possess the desolate inheritances,

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.

Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.

Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

“Return, O faithless sons,” [says the Lord],“I will heal your unfaithfulness.”[They answer] “Behold, we come to You,For You are the Lord our God.

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Now, because you have done all these things”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and because I have spoken to you time and time again but you wouldn’t listen, and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,

Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

In order to establish the oath that I have sworn to your fathers, To give to them a land flowing with milk and honey, as this day. And I answer and say, 'Amen, O Jehovah.'

“And if you [wonder and] say in your heart,‘Why have these things happened to me?’It is because of the greatness and nature of your sinThat your skirts have been pulled away [subjecting you to public disgrace]And [like a barefoot slave] your heels have been wounded.

Then you will answer them: Because your fathers abandoned Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“and followed other gods, served them, and worshiped them. Indeed, they abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.

Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.

So I, Jeremiah, tell you, "Each of you people should say to his friend or his relative, 'How did the Lord answer? Or what did the Lord say?'

Each of you should merely ask the prophet, 'What answer did the Lord give you? Or what did the Lord say?'

Since you're saying, "We have an oracle of the LORD,' therefore this is what the LORD says: He will answer your message with this message, "Burden of the LORD,' and I'll send you away with these words: "Don't say, "Oracle of the LORD."'

And you yourself shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them: 'Yahweh will roar from [on] high, and from {his holy dwelling place} he will give his voice. He will roar mightily against his settlement, a jubilant shout like those who tread [grapes], he will answer against all the inhabitants of the earth.

King Zedekiah of Judah will not escape from the Babylonians. He will certainly be handed over to the king of Babylon. He must answer personally to the king of Babylon and confront him face to face.

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

You yourself will not escape his clutches, but will certainly be captured and handed over to him. You must confront the king of Babylon face to face and answer to him personally. Then you must go to Babylon.

Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them because I have spoken to them, but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them, but they would not answer.”

Some time later Zedekiah sent and had Jeremiah brought to him at the third entrance of the Lord's temple. The king said to Jeremiah, "I would like to ask you a question. Do not hide anything from me when you answer."

Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I answer you, you will certainly kill me. If I give you advice, you will not listen to me."

Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah, questioning him: and he gave them an answer in the words the king had given him orders to say. So they said nothing more to him; for the thing was not made public.

And while he had not yet given answer; he said, Yea, go back to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath appointed over the cities of Judah, and abide with him in the midst of the people; or go wheresoever it seemeth right in thy sight to go. And the captain of the body-guard gave him provisions and a present, and let him go.