“People ¹  cry out because of the excess of oppression; ²  they cry out for help because of the power ³  of the mighty. ⁴ 

Also, when I cry out desperately ¹  for help, ²  he has shut out my prayer. ³ 

Israel cries out to me, “My God, we acknowledge you!”

“If my land cried out against me ²  and all its furrows wept together,

To you they cried out, and they were saved; in you they trusted and they were not disappointed. ¹ 

They cried out to the Lord in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

They cried out to the Lord in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.

For the stones in the walls will cry out, and the wooden rafters will answer back. ¹ 

Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.

When the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help because of Midian,

The Lord’s spirit took control of ¹  Gideon. He blew a trumpet, ²  summoning the Abiezrites to follow him. ³ 

Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!” ¹ 

When they called out to the Danites, the Danites ¹  turned around and said to Micah, “Why have you gathered together?”

So Amasa went out to call Judah together. But in doing so he took longer than the time that the king had allotted him.

King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed about this and cried out to heaven.

I cry out to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my shelter, my security ¹  in the land of the living.”

As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O Lord.

They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced, for it has fallen! Wail and cry out in mourning! Announce along the Arnon River that Moab has been destroyed.’

They will lament loudly ¹  over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes; ² 

How long, Lord, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, “Violence!” But you do not intervene! ¹