Vindicate me by rescuing me! Listen to me! Deliver me!

He will call out to me, ‘You are my father, my God, and the protector who delivers me.’

I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.

“Why do you try to refute me? All of you have rebelled against me,” says the Lord.

When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.

So now, Jeremiah said, “The Lord told me,

Then some men from Israel’s elders came to me and sat down in front of me.

So I said to them: “The word of the Lord came to me:

I heard someone speaking to me from the temple, while the man was standing beside me.

Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.

But the Lord was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he said to me, “Enough of that! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.

But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

that I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests. If not, I want to know.”

Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”

But you must bring your youngest brother to me. Then your words will be verified and you will not die.” They did as he said.

But Moses said before the Lord, “Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”

The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

Balaam said to God, “Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent a message to me, saying,