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

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“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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(A)In my distress I called upon the Lord;
    to my God I cried for help.
From his (B)temple he heard my voice,
    and my cry to him reached his ears.

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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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Then (A)I called on the name of the Lord:
    “O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”

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

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When my life was fainting away,
    I remembered the Lord,
(A)and my prayer came to you,
    into your holy temple.

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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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Deliver Me, O Lord

A Song of (A)Ascents.

120 In my distress I called to the Lord,
    and he answered me.

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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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15 (A)The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
    (B)and his ears toward their cry.
16 (C)The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
    to (D)cut off the memory of them from the earth.
17 (E)When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
    and delivers them out of all their troubles.

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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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Then the Lord said, (A)“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their (B)taskmasters. I know their sufferings,

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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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20 But (A)the Lord is in his holy temple;
    (B)let all the earth keep silence before him.”

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

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(A)This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
    and (B)saved him out of all his troubles.

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

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(A)One thing have I asked of the Lord,
    that will I seek after:
that I may (B)dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to gaze upon (C)the beauty of the Lord
    and to inquire[a] in his temple.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 27:4 Or meditate

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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Behold, (A)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (B)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (C)the Lord of hosts.

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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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In the days of his flesh, (A)Jesus[a] offered up prayers and supplications, (B)with loud cries and tears, to him (C)who was able to save him from death, and (D)he was heard because of his reverence.

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  1. Hebrews 5:7 Greek he

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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38 Then he said to them, (A)“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and (B)watch[a] with me.” 39 And going a little farther he fell on his face (C)and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let (D)this cup pass from me; (E)nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 26:38 Or keep awake; also verses 40, 41

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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