unto me, saith the LORD. [vs. 7-10.] 11. I the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did have overthrown some of you, as God over-hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry threw Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were did enter into his ears. as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Zeph. 3:2. She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction: she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God. 7. I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.

Hag. 2:17. I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

Rev. 9:20. And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 21. Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Rev. 16:9. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory, 10. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, 11. And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

v. 21.

As a Judgment. See JUDGMENT.
See IMPENITENCE.

INSTANCES OF: Pharaoh, Ex. 8:19; 9:3034; 14:5-9. Asa, 2 Chr. 16:12. Ahaz, 2 Chr. 28:22,23.

PENITENCE IN: INSTANCES OF: Pharaoh, Ex. 8:8; 9:27-30; 12:30,31; 14:5-9. David, 2 Sam. 12:15,16,23. Nebuchadnezzar, Dan, 4: 28-37. Levites, Neh. 9:33.

PRAYER IN: Gen.32:11. Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him,

Gen. 43:14. And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved. Ex. 17:4. And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

Num. 20:16. And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt:

2 Sam. 12:22. While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? 1 Sam. 1:10,11.

2 Sam. 15:31. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

2 Sam. 22:7. In my distress I called upon

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1 Kin. 8:35. When heaven is shut up, and if they pray toward this place, there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee;

and confess thy name, and turn from their sin when thou afflictest them: with vs. 3650; 2 Chr. 6:24-39.

2 Kin, 19:16. LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God. 19. Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.

1 Chr. 5:20. They cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them; because they put their trust in him.

2 Chr. 14:11. And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.

2 Chr. 20:12. O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do; but our eyes are upon thee. vs. 4-13.

2 Chr. 33:12. And when he was in affliction. he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13. And prayed unto him: and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD

he was God.

Neh. 4:4. Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: vs. 5,9; Neh. 6:9,14.

Neh. 9:32. Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

Job 10:2. I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contend9. Remember, I beseech thee, est with me. that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? v. 15.

Job 13:21. Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. Job 16:20. My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Psa. 3:1. LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me. 2. Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. 7. Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God:

Psa. 4:1. Hear me when I call, O God of my

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righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Psa. 5:8. Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.

Psa. 6:1. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3. My soul is also sore vexed; but thou, O LORD, how long? 4. Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake. vs. 5-7.

me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. 16. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted. 17. The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses. 18. Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins. 19. Consider mine enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred. 22. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

Psa. 27:11. Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. 12. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe

Psa. 7:1. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that perse-out cruelty. cute me, and deliver me: 2. Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver. vs. 6,7.

Psa. 9:13. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death: v. 14.

Psa. 10:1. Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 12. Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. vs. 13-15. Psa. 13:1. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2. How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? 3. Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; v. 4.

Psa. 16:1. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

Psa. 17:1. Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. 6. I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. 7. Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. 8. Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, 9. From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who Compass me about. 13. Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

rs. 2,14.

Psa. 20:1. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2. Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; Psa. 22:1. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 11. Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help. 19. Be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. 20. Deliver my soul from the sword: my darling from the power of the dog. 21. Save me from the lion's mouth: vs. 1-21.

Psa. 25:2. O my God, I trust in thee: let

Psa. 28:1. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Psa.30:9. What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? 10. Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

Psa. 31:1. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. 2. Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. 3. For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me. 4. Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. [vs. 15-18.] 9. Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. 14. But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God. 15. My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. 16. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake. 17. Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee:

Psa. 35:1. Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. 2. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. 3. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

17. Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 19. Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

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22. This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. 25. Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Psa. 38:1. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2. For thine arrows stick fast in

me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 9. Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

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21. Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me. 22. Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation. vs. 1-22.

Psa. 39:10. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 12. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Psa. 40:13. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. 17. I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. Psa. 70:5. Psa. 42:9. I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psa. 43:1. Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. 2. For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? vs. 3-5.

thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. 2. I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. Psa. 59:1. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me. 2. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 4. Awake to help me, and behold. vs. 1-17.

Psa. 60:1. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. 2. Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. 3. Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. 11. Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Psa. 61:1. Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. 2. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Psa. 64:1. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 2. Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

Psa. 69:1. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

13. As for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. 14. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be deliv

Psa. 44:4. Thou art my King, O God: com-ered from them that hate me, and out of the mand deliverances for Jacob. 23. Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 25. For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 26. Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

Psa. 50:15. And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psa. 54:1. Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength. 2. Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. 3. For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul:

Psa. 55:1. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. 2. Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; 3. Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me. vs. 1-17.

Psa. 56:1. Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me. 2. Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

vs. 1-13.

Psa. 57:1. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in

deep waters. 15. Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

17. Hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. 18. Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies. 19. Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. 29. I am poor and sorrow ful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. vs. 1-36.

Psa. 70:1. Make haste, O God, to deliver me: make haste to help me, O LORD. 2. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: vs. 3-5.

Psa. 71:1. In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. 2. Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. 4. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

vs. 1-24.

Psa. 71:9. Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. 12. O God, be not far from me: 0 my God, make haste for my help.

Psa. 74:1. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? rhy doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 3. Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations,

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even all that the enemy hath done wickedly God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. in the sanctuary.

Psa. 80:3. Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 4. O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5. Psa. 108:6. That thy beloved may be deThou feedest them with the bread of tears; livered: save with thy right hand, and anand givest them tears to drink in great meas-swer me. 12. Give us help from trouble: for ure. 14. Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine: vs. 1-16.

Psa. 142:1. With my voice unt did I make my supplication. 2. I my complaint before him; I she him my trouble. 5. I cried unto the I said, Thou art my refuge and 1 in the land of the living. 6. Atten cry; for I am brought very low: from my persecutors; for they a than I. 7. Bring my soul out of pr may praise thy name:

Psa. 143:7. Hear me speedily, O spirit faileth: hide not thy face fro I be like unto them that go down i 8. Cause me to hear thy lovingk the morning; for in thee do I trust to know the way wherein I should I lift up my soul unto thee. 9. Del LORD, from mine enemies: I flee to hide me. 11. Quicken me, O Lo name's sake: for thy righteous bring my soul out of trouble.

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Isa. 33:2. O LORD, be gracious u have waited for thee: be thou their morning, our salvation also in th trouble.

contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. soul destitute. 9. Keep me from 28. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen | which they have laid for me, and thou me according unto thy word. 39. Turn the workers of iniquity. vs. 1-10 away my reproach which I fear: for thy judg ments are good. 41. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word. 42. So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word. 76. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. 77. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. 82. Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? 84. How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? 107. I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. 121. Leave me not to mine oppressors. 122. Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me. 123. Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. 134. Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts. 145. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes. 146. I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. 147. I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. 148. Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word. 149. Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judg-that which is good in thy sight. ment. 153. Consider mine affliction, and de- kiah wept sore. [2 Kin. 20:3.] 14. Li liver me: for I do not forget thy law. 154. or a swallow, so did I chatter: I Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me as a dove: mine eyes fail with lo according to thy word. 170. Let my suppli- ward: O LORD, I am oppressed; cation come before thee: deliver me accord- for me. 15. What shall I say? he ing to thy word. 173. Let thine hand help spoken unto me, and himself hat me; for I have chosen thy precepts. I shall go softly all my years in Psa. 120:2. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from ness of my soul. 16. O Lord, by th lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue. men live, and in all these things of my spirit: so wilt thou recove make me to live. 17. Behold, fo had great bitterness; but thou ha to my soul delivered it from the ruption: for thou hast cast all my s thy back. 18. For the grave_can thee, death can not celebrate thee: go down into the pit cannot hop truth. 19. The living, the living praise thee, as I do this day the the children shall make known th

Psa. 123:3. Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4. Our soul is exceed ingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

Psa. 126:4. Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

Psa. 130:1. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. 2. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. vs. 1-8.

Psa. 140:4. Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed_to_overthrow my goings. 6. I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD. 7. O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. 8. Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. vs. 1-13.

Psa. 141:8. Mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my

Isa. 38:2. Then Hezekiah turne toward the wall, and prayed unto 3. And said, Remember now, OI seech thee, how I have walked bef truth and with a perfect heart, and

Isa. 51:9. Awake, awake, put on O arm of the LORD; awake, as in t days, in the generations of old.

Isa. 63:15. Look down from he behold from the habitation of th and of thy glory: where is thy ze strength, the sounding of thy bow thy mercies toward me? are they r 16. Doubtless thou art our fathe Abraham be ignorant of us, and knowledge us not: thou, O LOR father, our redeemer; thy nam everlasting. 17. O LORD, why made us to err from thy ways,