Psalm 107:12
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12 Their hearts were bowed down with hard labor;
they fell down, with no one to help.(A)
Psalm 22:11
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11 Do not be far from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is no one to help.
Luke 15:14-17
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14 When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that region, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that region, who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs. 16 He would gladly have filled his stomach[a] with the pods that the pigs were eating, and no one gave him anything. 17 But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger!
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- 15.16 Other ancient authorities read filled himself
Exodus 5:18-19
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18 Go now and work, for no straw shall be given you, but you shall still deliver the same number of bricks.” 19 The Israelite supervisors saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You shall not lessen your daily number of bricks.”
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Exodus 2:23
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23 After a long time the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned under their slavery and cried out. Their cry for help rose up to God from their slavery.(A)
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Lamentations 5:5-6
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Isaiah 63:5
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5 I looked, but there was no helper;
I was abandoned, and there was no one to sustain me,
so my own arm brought me victory,
and my wrath sustained me.(A)
Isaiah 52:5
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5 Now therefore what am I doing here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Their rulers howl, says the Lord, and continually, all day long, my name is despised.(A)
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Isaiah 51:23
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23 And I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
who have said to you,
“Bow down, that we may walk on you,”
and you have made your back like the ground
and like the street for them to walk on.(A)
Isaiah 51:19-20
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19 These two things have befallen you
—who will grieve with you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword.
Who will comfort you?[a](A)
20 Your children have fainted;
they lie at the head of every street
like an antelope in a net;
they are full of the wrath of the Lord,
the rebuke of your God.(B)
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- 51.19 Q ms Gk Syr Vg: MT how may I comfort you?
Job 9:13
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13 “God will not turn back his anger;
the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath him.(A)
Nehemiah 9:37
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37 Its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins; they have power also over our bodies and over our livestock at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.”(A)
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2 Kings 6:33
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33 While he was still speaking with them, the king[a] came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I hope in the Lord any longer?”(A)
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- 6.33 Cn: Heb messenger
2 Kings 6:26-27
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26 Now as the king of Israel was walking on the city wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help, my lord king!” 27 He said, “If the Lord does not help you, where would my help come from? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?”
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Judges 16:30
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30 Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” He strained with all his might, and the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So those he killed at his death were more than those he had killed during his life.
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Judges 10:16-18
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16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he could no longer bear to see Israel suffer.(A)
17 Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead, and the Israelites came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.(B) 18 The commanders of the people of Gilead said to one another, “Who will begin the fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”(C)
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Psalm 142:4
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4 Look on my right hand and see:
there is no one who takes notice of me;
no refuge remains to me;
no one cares for me.(A)
Psalm 18:40-41
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40 You made my enemies turn their backs to me,
and those who hated me I destroyed.(A)
41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them;
they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.(B)
Judges 16:21
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21 So the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.
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