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Psalms 120:1
In my distress I cried out to the LORD and he answered me.
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Psalms 18:4-6
The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried out to my God. From his heavenly temple he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help.
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Psalms 34:6
This oppressed man cried out and the LORD heard; he saved him from all his troubles.
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Psalms 88:1-7
O LORD God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.Listen to my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.You place me in the lowest regions of the pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.Your anger bears down on me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves.( Selah)
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1 Samuel 30 6
David was very upset, for the men were thinking of stoning him; each man grieved bitterly over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the LORD his God.
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Psalms 86:13
For you will extend your great loyal love to me, and will deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.
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Psalms 22:24
For he did not despise or detest the suffering of the oppressed; he did not ignore him; when he cried out to him, he responded.
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Luke 22:44
And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.]
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Hebrews 5:7
During his earthly life Christ offered both requests 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 devotion.
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Psalms 116:3
The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.
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Psalms 4:1
When I call out, answer me, O God who vindicates me! Though I am hemmed in, you will lead me into a wide, open place. Have mercy on me and respond to my prayer!
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Psalms 16:10
You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.
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Psalms 61:2
From the most remote place on earth I call out to you in my despair. Lead me up to an inaccessible rocky summit!
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Genesis 32:7-12
Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.“ If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought,“ then the other camp will be able to escape.”Then Jacob prayed,“ O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me,‘ Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.But you said,‘ I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”
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Psalms 142:1-3
To the LORD I cry out; to the LORD I plead for mercy.I pour out my lament before him; I tell him about my troubles.Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
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Matthew 12:40
For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish for three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.
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Psalms 65:2
You hear prayers; all people approach you.
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Acts 2:27
because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.
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Genesis 32:24-28
So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.Then the man said,“ Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.”“ I will not let you go,” Jacob replied,“ unless you bless me.”The man asked him,“ What is your name?” He answered,“ Jacob.”“ No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“ but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”
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Isaiah 14:9
Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
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1 Samuel 1 16
Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”