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A Song of Salvation

Isaiah 26:16

In 11 translations

BSB
O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
KJV
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.prayer: Heb. secret speech
WEB
Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.
ASV
Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
LSV
O YHWH, in distress they missed You, || They have poured out a whisper, || Your discipline [is] on them.
YLT
O Jehovah, in distress they missed Thee, They have poured out a whisper, Thy chastisement [is] on them.
DBY
Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out [their] whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
DRC
Lord, they have sought after thee in distress, in the tribulation of murmuring thy instruction was with them.
GNV
Lord, in trouble haue they visited thee: they powred out a prayer when thy chastening was vpon them.
JPS
LORD, in trouble have they sought Thee, silently they poured out a prayer when Thy chastening was upon them.
LXXE
Lord, in affliction I remembered thee; thy chastening was to us with small affliction.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יְהוָ֖ה בַּצַּ֣ר פְּקָד֑וּךָ צָק֣וּן לַ֔חַשׁ מוּסָרְךָ֖ לָֽמוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Κύριε, ἐν θλίψει ἐμνήσθην σου, ἐν θλίψει μικρᾷ ἡ παιδεία σου ἡμῖν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Hosea 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
  • Psalms 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
  • Judges 10:9–10The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was in deep distress. Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we…
  • Deuteronomy 4:29–30But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days…
  • Revelation 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
  • Psalms 91:15When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
  • 2 Chronicles 6:37–38and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’ and when they…
  • 1 Samuel 1:15“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.
  • Hosea 7:14They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
  • Psalms 42:4These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
  • Psalms 142:2I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
  • Isaiah 37:3to 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.
  • Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the…
  • Psalms 77:1–2I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me. In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
  • Jeremiah 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”
  • 2 Chronicles 33:12–13And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers. And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He…

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