'Help' in the Bible

Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.

Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;

Come to our help, Lord: let the king give ear to our cry.

Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.

Be a breastplate to me, and give me your help.

Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.

I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.

God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.

God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

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

Let your salvation come quickly, O God; come quickly to my help, O Lord.

But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.

Keep me safe in your righteousness, and come to my help; give ear to my voice, and be my saviour.

Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.

But, O Lord God, give me your help, because of your name; take me out of danger, because your mercy is good.

Give me help, O Lord my God; in your mercy be my saviour;

O Israel, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.

O house of Aaron, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.

You worshippers of the Lord, have faith in the Lord: he is their help and their breastplate.

All your teachings are certain; they go after me with evil design; give me your help.

Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words.

Undertake my cause, and come to my help, give me life, as you have said.

Let your hand be near for my help; for I have given my heart to your orders.

My eyes are lifted up to the hills: O where will my help come from?

O Lord, give not the wrongdoer his desire; give him no help in his evil designs, or he may be uplifted in pride. (Selah.)

Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.

For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.

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

Be the saviour of those who are given up to death, and do not keep back help from those who are slipping to destruction.

One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

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.

And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?

And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the fate of our hope to whom we went for help and salvation from the king of Assyria: what hope have we then of salvation?

Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:

And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.

Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.

For there is no use or purpose in the help of Egypt: so I have said about her, She is Rahab, who has come to an end.

For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:

Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;

Though he is wise, and able to send evil, and his purpose will not be changed; but he will go against the house of the evil-doers, and against those to whom they are looking for help.

O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.

They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!

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.

They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.

Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.

My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.

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.

Then the towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go crying for help to the gods to whom they have been burning perfumes: but they will give them no salvation in the time of their trouble.

Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.

O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;

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;

Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.

But Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, gave Jeremiah his help, so that he was not given into the hands of the people to be put to death.

There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.

Why are you crying for help because of your wound? for your pain may never be taken away: because your evil-doing was so great and because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me: See, Pharaoh's army, which has come out to your help, will go back to Egypt, to their land.

And now be pleased to give ear, O my lord the king; let my prayer for help come before you, and do not make me go back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, for fear that I may come to my death there.

Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.

Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.

I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.

And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.

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

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.

And Pharaoh with his strong army and great forces will be no help to him in the war, when they put up earthworks and make strong walls for the cutting off of lives:

But the angel of the kingdom of Persia put himself against me for twenty-one days; but Michael, one of the chief angels, came to my help; and when I came he was still there with the angel of the kings of Persia.

Now at the time of their downfall they will have a little help, but numbers will be joined to them in the town, and in their separate heritages.

When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.

Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.

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

But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.

Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.

Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.