Lexicon :: Strong's G2347 - thlipsis

“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.”

The people believed, and when they heard that the LORD had paid attention to them and that he had seen their misery, they knelt low and worshiped.

“But from there, you will search for the LORD your God, and you will find him when you seek him with all your heart and all your soul.

“You will eat your offspring,[fn] the flesh of your sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you.

“refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.

“the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your city gates.

“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? ’

“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.”

“When a man finds his enemy, does he let him go unharmed?[fn] May the LORD repay you with good for what you’ve done for me today.

“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,

They confronted me in the day of my calamity,

but the LORD was my support.

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

“and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only a little bread and water[fn] until I come back safely.’ ”

Then Jehoahaz sought the LORD’s favor, and the LORD heard him, for he saw the oppression the king of Aram inflicted on Israel.

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.

“and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this guy in prison and feed him only a little bread and water[fn] until I come back safely.’ ”

“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.

Trouble and distress terrify him,

overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle.

Answer me when I call,

God, who vindicates me.[fn]

You freed me from affliction;

be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

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.

You are my hiding place;

you protect me from trouble.

You surround me with joyful shouts of deliverance.Selah

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.

One who is righteous has many adversities,

but the LORD rescues him from them all.

The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD,

their refuge in a time of distress.

Why do you hide

and forget our affliction and oppression?

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.

because of the enemy’s words,[fn]

because of the pressure[fn] of the wicked.

For they bring down disaster on me

and harass me in anger.

But I will sing of your strength

and will joyfully proclaim

your faithful love in the morning.

For you have been a stronghold for me,

a refuge in my day of trouble.

Give us aid against the foe,

for human help is worthless.

You lured us into a trap;

you placed burdens on our backs.

that my lips promised

and my mouth spoke during my distress.

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