The Judeans looked around and saw that they were surrounded. They cried to the LORD for help, and the priests blew the trumpets.

Asa prayed to the LORD his God, "O LORD, you can help a weak army as easily as a powerful one. Help us now, O LORD our God, because we are relying on you, and in your name we have come out to fight against this huge army. LORD, you are our God; no one can hope to defeat you."

When the Israelites saw the king and his army marching against them, they were terrified and cried out to the LORD for help.

I love the LORD, because he hears me; he listens to my prayers.

He listens to me every time I call to him.

We felt that the death sentence had been passed on us. But this happened so that we should rely, not on ourselves, but only on God, who raises the dead.

From such terrible dangers of death he saved us, and will save us; and we have placed our hope in him that he will save us again,

God helped him defeat the Philistines, the Arabs living at Gurbaal, and the Meunites.

His angel guards those who honor the LORD and rescues them from danger.

God is our shelter and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble.

The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.

If the LORD had not helped me, I would have gone quickly to the land of silence.

I was fiercely attacked and was being defeated, but the LORD helped me.

In the first year that Cyrus of Persia was emperor, the LORD made what he had said through the prophet Jeremiah come true. He prompted Cyrus to issue the following command and send it out in writing to be read aloud everywhere in his empire:

Ezra said, "Praise the LORD, the God of our ancestors! He has made the emperor willing to honor in this way the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.

Listen now to my prayer and to the prayers of all your other servants who want to honor you. Give me success today and make the emperor merciful to me." In those days I was the emperor's wine steward.

When you please the LORD, you can make your enemies into friends.

The LORD controls the mind of a king as easily as he directs the course of a stream.