Psalm 31:22
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22 I had said in my alarm,
“I am driven far[a] from your sight.”
But you heard my supplications
when I cried out to you for help.(A)
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- 31.22 Heb mss: MT cut off
Psalm 116:11
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11 I said in my consternation,
“Everyone is a liar.”(A)
Jonah 2:4
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4 Then I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
how[a] shall I look again
upon your holy temple?’(A)
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- 2.4 Theodotion: Heb surely
Ezekiel 37:11
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11 Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’(A)
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Psalm 88:16
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16 Your wrath has swept over me;
your dread assaults destroy me.
Psalm 6:9
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9 The Lord has heard my supplication;
the Lord accepts my prayer.(A)
Job 35:14
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14 How much less when you say that you do not see him,
that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!(A)
Hebrews 5:7
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7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus[a] offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.(A)
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- 5.7 Gk he
Jonah 2:7-9
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7 As my life was ebbing away,
I remembered the Lord,
and my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.(A)
8 Those who worship vain idols
forsake their true loyalty.(B)
9 But I with the voice of thanksgiving
will sacrifice to you;
what I have vowed I will pay.
Deliverance belongs to the Lord!”(C)
Lamentations 3:54-55
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54 water closed over my head;
I said, “I am lost.”(A)
55 I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;(B)
Isaiah 49:14
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14 But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”(A)
Isaiah 38:10-12
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10 I said: In the noontide of my days
I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
for the rest of my years.(A)
11 I said, I shall not see the Lord
in the land of the living;
I shall look upon mortals no more
among the inhabitants of the world.(B)
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;(C)
Isaiah 6:5
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5 And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”(A)
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Psalm 31:17
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17 Do not let me be put to shame, O Lord,
for I call on you;
let the wicked be put to shame;
let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.(A)
2 Chronicles 33:11-13
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11 Therefore the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh captive in manacles, bound him with fetters, and brought him to Babylon.(A) 12 While he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.(B) 13 He prayed to him, and God received his entreaty, heard his plea, and restored him again to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord indeed was God.(C)
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1 Samuel 27:1
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David Serves King Achish of Gath
27 David said in his heart, “I shall certainly perish one day by the hand of Saul; there is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines; then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”
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1 Samuel 23:26
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26 Saul went on one side of the mountain and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, while Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.(A)
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