Now don’t let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you like this. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to rescue his people from my power or the power of my predecessors. So how ¹  can your gods rescue ²  you from my power?’”

For you deliver oppressed ¹  people, but you bring down those who have a proud look. ² 

Deliver me from my distress; ¹  rescue me from my suffering! ² 

O God, rescue ¹  Israel from all their distress! ² 

But I have integrity! ¹  Rescue me ²  and have mercy on me!

by saving their lives from death ¹  and sustaining them during times of famine. ² 

(the ransom price for a human life ¹  is too high, and people go to their final destiny), ² 

As for me, I will call out to God, and the Lord will deliver me.

He will take pity ¹  on the poor and needy; the lives of the needy he will save.

If you strike ¹  him with the rod, you will deliver him ²  from death. ³ 

But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits ¹  and held captive ²  in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says, “Bring that back!” ³ 

So they came ¹  and woke him up saying, “Lord, save us! We are about to die!”

and saying, “If ¹  you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!”

Rescue me, ¹  I pray, from the hand ²  of my brother Esau, ³  for I am afraid he will come ⁴  and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children. ⁵ 

After Abimelech’s death, ¹  Tola son of Puah, grandson ²  of Dodo, from the tribe of Issachar, ³  rose up to deliver Israel. He lived in Shamir in the Ephraimite hill country.

But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, ¹  but deliver us today!” ² 

Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, ¹  ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. ²  Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ ³ 

I would go out after it, strike it down, and rescue the sheep from its mouth. If it rose up against me, I would grab it by its jaw, strike it, and kill it.

Yes! ¹  The king may ²  listen and deliver his female servant ³  from the hand of the man who seeks to remove ⁴  both me and my son from the inheritance God has given us!’ ⁵ 

The Lord provided a deliverer ¹  for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power. ²  The Israelites once more lived in security. ³