Bible Strands
Psalms 107:13
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist recounts a group humbled by hard labor and left without help (v. 12). The moment is their cry to Yahweh and the rescue that immediately follows.
The words — יִזְעֲקוּ (yiz.'a.Ku) is a strong, urgent cry, not a quiet request. מְצֻקוֹתֵיהֶם (me.tzu.ko.tei.Hem) is plural, suggesting accumulated afflictions rather than a single blow.
The thread — The same formula recurs at Psalms 107:6 and 107:28, making it a refrain across the psalm's cases. Judges 4:3 shows the same pattern in narrative: oppression, cry, deliverance.
Why it lands — The verse places the cry, not the distress, as the pivot. It asks the reader to see that rescue follows the cry, not the suffering itself.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
Cross-references
- Psalms 107:28 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.
- Psalms 107:6 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.
- Judges 4:3 Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
- Judges 6:6 Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.
- Psalms 18:6 In 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.
- Exodus 3:7 The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
- 2 Chronicles 33:12 And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
- Psalms 116:3 The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
- Psalms 107:19 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
- Judges 10:10 Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”