Lexicon :: Strong's H6818 - ṣᵊʿāqâ

“I will go down to see if what they have done justifies the cry that has come up to me. If not, I will find out.”

“for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the LORD, that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”

When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father! ”

Then the LORD said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,

“So because the Israelites’ cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them,

“Then there will be a great cry of anguish through all the land of Egypt such as never was before or ever will be again.

During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn’t a house without someone dead.

“If you do mistreat them, they will no doubt cry to me, and I will certainly hear their cry.

Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion? ” The man quickly came and reported to Eli.

“At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him ruler over my people Israel. He will save them from the Philistines because I have seen the affliction of my people, for their cry has come to me.”

There was a widespread outcry from the people and their wives against their Jewish countrymen.

Will God hear his cry

when distress comes on him?

but caused the poor to cry out to him,

and he heard the outcry of the needy.

For the one who seeks an accounting

for bloodshed remembers them;

he does not forget the cry of the oppressed.

For the vineyard of the LORD of Armies

is the house of Israel,

and the men[fn] of Judah,

the plant he delighted in.

He expected justice

but saw injustice;

he expected righteousness

but heard cries of despair.

Hear the sound of the shepherds’ cry,

the wail of the leaders of the flock,

for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

A voice cries out from Horonaim,

“devastation and a crushing blow! ”

For on the Ascent to Luhith

they will be weeping continually,[fn]

and on the descent to Horonaim

will be heard cries of distress over the destruction:

At the sound of their fall the earth will quake; the sound of her cry will be heard at the Red Sea.

On that day —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

there will be an outcry from the Fish Gate,

a wailing from the Second District,

and a loud crashing from the hills.