2 Chronicles 33:13

33:13 When he prayed to the Lord, ¹  the Lord ²  responded to him ³  and answered favorably ⁴  his cry for mercy. The Lord ⁵  brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.

2 Chronicles 33:19

33:19 The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself. ⁶ 

Job 34:28

34:28 so that they caused ⁷  the cry of the poor

to come before him,

so that he hears ⁸  the cry of the needy.

Psalms 3:4

3:4 To the Lord I cried out, ⁹ 

and he answered me from his holy hill. ¹⁰  (Selah)

Psalms 6:8-9

6:8 Turn back from me, all you who behave wickedly, ¹¹ 

for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping! ¹² 

6:9 The Lord has heard my appeal for mercy;

the Lord has accepted ¹³  my prayer.

Psalms 34:6

34:6 This oppressed man cried out and the Lord heard;

he saved him ¹⁴  from all his troubles.

Psalms 66:19

66:19 However, God heard;

he listened to my prayer.

Psalms 116:1-2

Psalm 116 ¹⁵ 

116:1 I love the Lord

because he heard my plea for mercy, ¹⁶ 

116:2 and listened to me. ¹⁷ 

As long as I live, I will call to him when I need help. ¹⁸ 

Isaiah 38:5

38:5 “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor ¹⁹  David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,

¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”

⁴ tn Heb “heard.”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “and his prayer and being entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness and the places where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – behold, they are written on the words of his seers.”

⁷ tn The verse begins with the infinitive construct of בּוֹא (bo’, “go”), showing the result of their impious actions.

⁸ tn The verb here is an imperfect; the clause is circumstantial to the preceding clause, showing either the result, or the concomitant action.

⁹ tn The prefixed verbal form could be an imperfect, yielding the translation “I cry out,” but the verb form in the next line (a vav [ו] consecutive with the preterite) suggests this is a brief narrative of what has already happened. Consequently the verb form in v. 4a is better understood as a preterite, “I cried out.” (For another example of the preterite of this same verb form, see Ps 30:8.) Sometime after the crisis arose, the psalmist prayed to the Lord and received an assuring answer. Now he confidently awaits the fulfillment of the divine promise.

¹⁰ sn His holy hill. That is, Zion (see Pss 2:6; 48:1-2). The psalmist recognizes that the Lord dwells in his sanctuary on Mount Zion.

¹¹ tn Heb “all [you] workers of wickedness.” See Ps 5:5.

¹² sn The Lord has heard. The psalmist’s mood abruptly changes because the Lord responded positively to the lament and petition of vv. 1-7 and promised him deliverance.

¹³ tn The prefixed verbal form is probably a preterite here; it is parallel to a perfect and refers to the fact that the Lord has responded favorably to the psalmist’s request.

¹⁴ tn The pronoun refers back to “this oppressed man,” namely, the psalmist.

¹⁵ sn Psalm 116. The psalmist thanks the Lord for delivering him from a life threatening crisis and promises to tell the entire covenant community what God has done for him.

¹⁶ tn Heb “I love because the Lord heard my voice, my pleas.” It is possible that “the Lord” originally appeared directly after “I love” and was later accidentally misplaced. The translation assumes the prefixed verbal form is a preterite. The psalmist recalls that God heard his cry for help (note the perfect in v. 2a and the narrative in vv. 3-4).

¹⁷ tn Heb “because he turned his ear to me.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and in my days I will cry out.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “father” (so KJV, NAB, NIV).