Psalms 120:1
In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
BSB
ASV
In my distress I cried unto Jehovah, And he answered me.
KJV
In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.
Therefore it was none other than God whom David too implored for his deliverance: "When I was in trouble, I called on the Lord, and he heard me; deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue." To him also giving thanks he spoke the words of the song in the seventeenth psalm [LXX], in the day in which the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul, saying, "I will love you, O Lord, my strength; the Lord is my strong rock and my defense and deliverer."
The name of the author of the Psalm is not expressed, but the style of it throughout presents David to our view. Although, therefore, I cannot positively affirm, yet I am rather inclined to think that it was composed by him. Nor will it be improper, in my judgment, to explain it as if his name had been mentioned in the inscription.
In my distress I cried unto the Lord,.... Being at a distance from his own country, or, however, from the house of God; persecuted by men, under the lash of their tongues; reproached, abused, and belied by them: in this his case and circumstances, he betook himself by prayer to the Lord, and importuned help and deliverance of him, knowing that none could help him as he; see Psa 18:6; and he heard me; answered him, and delivered him. The petition he put up follows, which shows his case, and his particular distress.
David was herein a type of Christ, who was distressed by lying lips and deceitful tongues. In this distress he had recourse to God by faithful and fervent prayer: I cried unto the Lord.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Psalms 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
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Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
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Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.
When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They…
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Psalms 18:6In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for His help reached His ears.
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Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!
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Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
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Psalms 118:5In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered and set me free.
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He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
