And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, and cried to my God: He heard my voice out of His holy temple, and my cry shall enter before Him, into His ears.

For He has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away His face from Me; but when I cried to Him, He heard Me.

But I said in my extreme fear, I am cast out from the sight of Your eyes; therefore You listened, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication when I cried to You.

For the end, for Idithun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to the Lord with my voice, yea, my voice [was addressed] to God; and He gave heed to me.

In the day of my affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; [even] with my hands by night before Him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted.

Alleluia. I am well pleased, because the Lord will hearken to the voice of my supplication.

The pangs of death compassed me; the dangers of hell found me; I found affliction and sorrow.

The Lord is merciful and righteous; yea, our God has pity.

[ 2:3] and said, I cried in my affliction to the Lord my God, and He hearkened unto me, even to my cry out of the belly of hell: You heard my voice.

"Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

"So I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up both prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears to the [One] who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His fear of God,

[A Psalm] of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Savior; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

When evildoers drew near against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and my enemies, they fainted and fell.

Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas.

They shall be afraid, but I will trust in You.

And David said in his heart, Now shall I be one day delivered [for death] into the hands of Saul; and there is nothing better for me unless I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul should cease from seeking me through every coast of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.

Behold, my God is my Savior; I will trust in Him, and not be afraid; for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and has become my salvation.

For indeed, when we came to Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; outside [were] fightings, inside [were] fears.

Nevertheless God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.