“In my distress(A) I called(B) to the Lord;
    I called out to my God.
From his temple he heard my voice;
    my cry came to his ears.

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In my distress (A)I called upon the Lord,
And cried out to my God;
He (B)heard my voice from His temple,
And my cry entered His ears.

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Then I called on the name(A) of the Lord:
    Lord, save me!(B)

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Then I called upon the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I implore You, deliver my soul!”

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In my distress(A) I called to the Lord;(B)
    I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice;(C)
    my cry came(D) before him, into his ears.

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In my distress I called upon the Lord,
And cried out to my God;
He heard my voice from His temple,
And my cry came before Him, even to His ears.

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“When my life was ebbing away,
    I remembered(A) you, Lord,
and my prayer(B) rose to you,
    to your holy temple.(C)

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“When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord;
(A)And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.

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Psalm 120

A song of ascents.

I call on the Lord(A) in my distress,(B)
    and he answers me.

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Plea for Relief from Bitter Foes

A Song of Ascents.

120 In (A)my distress I cried to the Lord,
And He heard me.

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The Lord said, “I have indeed seen(A) the misery(B) of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned(C) about their suffering.(D)

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And the Lord said: (A)“I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry (B)because of their taskmasters, (C)for I know their [a]sorrows.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 3:7 pain

20 The Lord is in his holy temple;(A)
    let all the earth be silent(B) before him.

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20 “But(A) the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”

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15 The eyes of the Lord(A) are on the righteous,(B)
    and his ears are attentive(C) to their cry;
16 but the face of the Lord is against(D) those who do evil,(E)
    to blot out their name(F) from the earth.

17 The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears(G) them;
    he delivers them from all their troubles.

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15 (A)The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
And His ears are open to their cry.
16 (B)The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
(C)To [a]cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

17 The righteous cry out, and (D)the Lord hears,
And delivers them out of all their troubles.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 34:16 destroy

This poor man called, and the Lord heard him;
    he saved him out of all his troubles.(A)

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This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him,
And saved him out of all his troubles.

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One thing(A) I ask from the Lord,
    this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,(B)
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
    and to seek him in his temple.

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(A)One thing I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may (B)dwell in the house of the Lord
All the days of my life,
To behold the [a]beauty of the Lord,
And to inquire in His temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 27:4 delightfulness

Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers(A) who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries(B) of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.(C)

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Indeed (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and (B)the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of [a]Sabaoth.

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:4 Lit., in Heb., Hosts

During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions(A) with fervent cries and tears(B) to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard(C) because of his reverent submission.(D)

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who, in the days of His flesh, when He had (A)offered up prayers and supplications, (B)with vehement cries and tears to Him (C)who was able to save Him from death, and was heard (D)because of His godly fear,

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38 Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow(A) to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”(B)

39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup(C) be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”(D)

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38 Then He said to them, (A)“My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”

39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and (B)prayed, saying, (C)“O My Father, if it is possible, (D)let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, (E)not as I will, but as You will.

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