2 Chronicles 13:14

13:14 The men of Judah turned around and realized they were being attacked from the front and the rear. ¹  So they cried out for help to the Lord. The priests blew their trumpets,

2 Chronicles 18:31

18:31 When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out. The Lord helped him; God lured them away from him.

2 Chronicles 32:20

32:20 King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed about this and cried out to heaven.

Exodus 14:10

14:10 When ²  Pharaoh got closer, ³  the Israelites looked up, ⁴  and there were the Egyptians marching after them, ⁵  and they were terrified. ⁶  The Israelites cried out to the Lord, ⁷ 

Exodus 14:1

The Victory at the Red Sea

14:1 ⁸ The Lord spoke to Moses:

Exodus 5:20

5:20 When they went out from Pharaoh, they encountered Moses and Aaron standing there to meet them, ⁹ 

Psalms 18:6

18:6 In my distress I called to the Lord;

I cried out to my God. ¹⁰ 

From his heavenly temple ¹¹  he heard my voice;

he listened to my cry for help. ¹² 

Psalms 22:5

22:5 To you they cried out, and they were saved;

in you they trusted and they were not disappointed. ¹³ 

Psalms 34:6

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

he saved him ¹⁴  from all his troubles.

Psalms 50:15

50:15 Pray to me when you are in trouble! ¹⁵ 

I will deliver you, and you will honor me!” ¹⁶ 

Psalms 91:15

91:15 When he calls out to me, I will answer him.

I will be with him when he is in trouble;

I will rescue him and bring him honor.

Psalms 120:1

Psalm 120 ¹⁷ 

A song of ascents. ¹⁸ 

120:1 In my distress I cried out

to the Lord and he answered me.

Acts 2:21

2:21 And then ¹⁹  everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ ²⁰ 

[13:14]  ¹ tn Heb “and Judah turned, and, look, to them [was] the battle in front and behind.”

[14:10]  ² tn The disjunctive vav introduces a circumstantial clause here.

[14:10]  ³ tn Heb “drew near.”

[14:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “lifted up their eyes,” an expression that indicates an intentional and careful looking – they looked up and fixed their sights on the distance.

[14:10]  ⁵ tn The construction uses הִנֵּה (hinneh) with the participle, traditionally rendered “and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them.” The deictic particle calls attention in a dramatic way to what was being seen. It captures the surprise and the sudden realization of the people.

[14:10]  ⁶ tn The verb “feared” is intensified by the adverb מְאֹד (mÿ’od): “they feared greatly” or “were terrified.” In one look their defiant boldness seems to have evaporated.

[14:10]  ⁷ sn Their cry to the Lord was proper and necessary. But their words to Moses were a rebuke and disloyal, showing a lack of faith and understanding. Their arrogance failed them in the crisis because it was built on the arm of flesh. Moses would have to get used to this murmuring, but here he takes it in stride and gives them the proper instructions. They had cried to the Lord, and now the Lord would deliver.

[14:1]  ⁸ sn The account recorded in this chapter is one of the best known events in all of Scripture. In the argument of the book it marks the division between the bondage in Egypt and the establishment of the people as a nation. Here is the deliverance from Egypt. The chapter divides simply in two, vv. 1-14 giving the instructions, and vv. 15-31 reporting the victory. See among others, G. Coats, “History and Theology in the Sea Tradition,” ST 29 (1975): 53-62); A. J. Ehlen, “Deliverance at the Sea: Diversity and Unity in a Biblical Theme,” CTM 44 (1973): 168-91; J. B. Scott, “God’s Saving Acts,” The Presbyterian Journal 38 (1979): 12-14; W. Wifall, “The Sea of Reeds as Sheol,” ZAW 92 (1980): 325-32.

[5:20]  ⁹ sn Moses and Aaron would not have made the appeal to Pharaoh that these Hebrew foremen did, but they were concerned to see what might happen, and so they waited to meet the foremen when they came out.

[18:6]  ¹⁰ tn In this poetic narrative context the four prefixed verbal forms in v. 6 are best understood as preterites indicating past tense, not imperfects.

[18:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from his temple.” Verse 10, which pictures God descending from the sky, indicates that the heavenly temple is in view, not the earthly one.

[18:6]  ¹² tc Heb “and my cry for help before him came into his ears.” 2 Sam 22:7 has a shorter reading, “my cry for help, in his ears.” It is likely that Ps 18:6 MT as it now stands represents a conflation of two readings: (1) “my cry for help came before him,” (2) “my cry for help came into his ears.” See F. M. Cross and D. N. Freedman, Studies in Ancient Yahwistic Poetry (SBLDS), 144, n. 13.

[22:5]  ¹³ tn Or “were not ashamed.”

[34:6]  ¹⁴ tn The pronoun refers back to “this oppressed man,” namely, the psalmist.

[50:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “call [to] me in a day of trouble.”

[50:15]  ¹⁶ sn In vv. 7-15 the Lord makes it clear that he was not rebuking Israel because they had failed to offer sacrifices (v. 8a). On the contrary, they had been faithful in doing so (v. 8b). However, their understanding of the essence of their relationship with God was confused. Apparently they believed that he needed/desired such sacrifices and that offering them would ensure their prosperity. But the Lord owns all the animals of the world and did not need Israel’s meager sacrifices (vv. 9-13). Other aspects of the relationship were more important to the Lord. He desired Israel to be thankful for his blessings (v. 14a), to demonstrate gratitude for his intervention by repaying the vows they made to him (v. 14b), and to acknowledge their absolute dependence on him (v. 15a). Rather than viewing their sacrifices as somehow essential to God’s well-being, they needed to understand their dependence on him.

[120:1]  ¹⁷ sn Psalm 120. The genre and structure of this psalm are uncertain. It begins like a thanksgiving psalm, with a brief notice that God has heard the psalmist’s prayer for help and has intervened. But v. 2 is a petition for help, followed by a taunt directed toward enemies (vv. 3-4) and a lament (vv. 5-7). Perhaps vv. 2-7 recall the psalmist’s prayer when he cried out to the Lord.

[120:1]  ¹⁸ sn The precise significance of this title, which appears in Pss 120-134, is unclear. Perhaps worshipers recited these psalms when they ascended the road to Jerusalem to celebrate annual religious festivals. For a discussion of their background see L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 219-21.

[2:21]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “And it will be that.”

[2:21]  ²⁰ sn A quotation from Joel 2:28-32.