Lexicon :: Strong's H6869 - ṣārâ

“We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

Then they said to each other, “Obviously, we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this trouble has come to us.”

“My anger will burn against them on that day; I will abandon them and hide my face from them so that they will become easy prey. Many troubles and afflictions will come to them. On that day they will say, ‘Haven’t these troubles come to us because our God is no longer with us? ’

“And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because[fn] their descendants will not have forgotten it. For I know what they are prone to do,[fn] even before I bring them into the land I swore to give them.”

“Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them deliver you whenever you are oppressed.”

Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the LORD had kept Hannah from conceiving.

“But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions. You said to him, ‘You[fn] must set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”

“Just as I considered your life valuable today, so may the LORD consider my life valuable and rescue me from all trouble.”

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

The king swore an oath and said, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from every difficulty,

They said to 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.

“Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every possible distress.

“If disaster comes on us ​— ​sword or judgment, pestilence or famine ​— ​we will stand before this temple and before you, for your name is in this temple. We will cry out to you because of our distress, and you will hear and deliver.”

So you handed them over to their enemies,

who oppressed them.

In their time of distress, they cried out to you,

and you heard from heaven.

In your abundant compassion

you gave them deliverers, who rescued them

from the power of their enemies.

Its abundant harvest goes to the kings

you have set over us,

because of our sins.

They rule over our bodies

and our livestock as they please.

We are in great distress.

He will rescue you from six calamities;

no harm will touch you in seven.

Will God hear his cry

when distress comes on him?

The LORD is a refuge for the persecuted,

a refuge in times of trouble.

LORD,[fn][fn] why do you stand so far away?

Why do you hide in times of trouble?

May the LORD answer you in a day of trouble;

may the name of Jacob’s God protect you.

Don’t be far from me, because distress is near

and there’s no one to help.

The distresses of my heart increase;[fn]

bring me out of my sufferings.

God, redeem Israel, from all its distresses.

I will rejoice and be glad in your faithful love

because you have seen my affliction.

You know the troubles of my soul

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him

and saved him from all his troubles.

The righteous[fn] cry out, and the LORD hears,

and rescues them from all their troubles.

The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD,

their refuge in a time of distress.

God is our refuge and strength,

a helper who is always found

in times of trouble.

“Call on me in a day of trouble;

I will rescue you, and you will honor me.”

For he has rescued me from every trouble,

and my eye has looked down on my enemies.

You caused me to experience

many troubles and misfortunes,

but you will revive me again.

You will bring me up again,

even from the depths of the earth.

I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.

My hands were continually lifted up

all night long;

I refused to be comforted.

He sent his burning anger against them:

fury, indignation, and calamity —

a band of deadly messengers.[fn]

“You called out in distress, and I rescued you;

I answered you from the thundercloud.

I tested you at the Waters of Meribah.Selah

I call on you in the day of my distress,

for you will answer me.

When he calls out to me, I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble.

I will rescue him and give him honor.

The ropes of death were wrapped around me,

and the torments of Sheol overcame me;

I encountered trouble and sorrow.

In my distress I called to the LORD,

and he answered me.

If I walk into the thick of danger,

you will preserve my life

from the anger of my enemies.

You will extend your hand;

your right hand will save me.

I pour out my complaint before him;

I reveal my trouble to him.

For your name’s sake, LORD,

let me live.

In your righteousness deliver me from trouble,

“when terror strikes you like a storm

and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,

when trouble and stress overcome you.

The righteous one is rescued from trouble;

in his place, the wicked one goes in.

By rebellious speech an evil person is trapped,

but a righteous person escapes from trouble.

A friend loves at all times,

and a brother is born for a difficult time.

The one who guards his mouth and tongue

keeps himself out of trouble.

If you do nothing in a difficult time,

your strength is limited.

Trusting an unreliable person in a difficult time

is like a rotten tooth or a faltering foot.

They will look toward the earth and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.

A pronouncement concerning the animals of the Negev:[fn]

Through a land of trouble 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 who will not help them.