Distress

In great fear and distress, Jacob divided his people into two camps, as well as the flocks and herds and camels.

Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Then they said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”

If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

…refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

…the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.

The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress.

Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”

In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.

You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.

Now the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.” So none of the troops tasted any food.

Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and a spirit of distress from the LORD began to torment him.

Saul’s servants said to him, “Surely a spirit of distress from God is tormenting you.

Let our lord command your servants here to seek out someone who can skillfully play the harp. Whenever the spirit of distress from God is upon you, he is to play it, and you will be well.”

And whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would pick up his harp and play. Then Saul would find relief and feel better, and the spirit of distress would depart from him.

The next day a spirit of distress sent from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied inside the house while David played the harp as usual. Now Saul was holding a spear,

But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp,

But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.

And the king swore an oath, saying, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

…to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.

‘If disaster comes upon us—whether sword or judgment, plague or famine—we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your Name is in this temple. We will cry out to You in our distress, and You will hear us and save us.’

In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.

When Esther’s maidens and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, the queen was overcome with distress. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?

Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,

Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.

Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.

He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”

In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.

The troubles of my heart increase; free me from my distress.

Redeem Israel, O God, from all its distress.

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well.

May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.

…the vows that my lips promised and my mouth spoke in my distress.

Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!

But I am in pain and distress; let Your salvation protect me, O God.

You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

In the day of my distress I call on You, because You answer me.

Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.

Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.

In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free.

Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.

A song of ascents. In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.

…when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

He who guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from distress.

If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,

O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.

This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

…to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”

O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?

The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.

For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:

Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

I will set fire to Egypt, Pelusium will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be split open, and Memphis will face daily distress.

Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.

But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.

…saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of distress; He cares for those who trust in Him.

I saw the tents of Cushan in distress; the curtains of Midian were trembling.

I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.

That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

They will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.

There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

For through many tears I wrote you out of great distress and anguish of heart, not to grieve you but to let you know how much I love you.

The former, however, preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can add to the distress of my chains.

…because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for my deliverance.

For this reason, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we have been reassured about you, because of your faith.