Even so, he pitied them in their distress and listened to their cries.

然而，他听见他们哀告的时候，就眷顾他们的急难，

然而，他听见他们哀告的时候，就眷顾他们的急难，

然而，他听见他们哀告的时候，就眷顾他们的急难，

但祂听见他们在苦难中呼求时，仍然眷顾他们。

可是他听到了他们哀叫的时候，就垂顾他们的苦难。

然而，当他听到他们呼声的时候，就垂顾他们的危难，

然而，他聽見他們哀告的時候，就眷顧他們的急難，

然而，他聽見他們哀告的時候，就眷顧他們的急難，

然而，他聽見他們哀告的時候，就眷顧他們的急難，

但祂聽見他們在苦難中呼求時，仍然眷顧他們。

可是他聽到了他們哀叫的時候，就垂顧他們的苦難。

然而他聽見了他們的喊求時，就看到他們於急難中。

然而，當他聽到他們呼聲的時候，就垂顧他們的危難，

然猶聽其呼籲、恤其患難兮、

民逢禍患、主聞其籲、復加眷顧兮、

斯民急難時、主仍眷顧之、俯聽其哀告、

窮極呼主。主聞其哭。天心實慈。愍其窘蹙。

Yet he took note of their distress when he heard their cry;

Yet he heard them when they cried out. He paid special attention to their suffering.

Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.

When he heard their cry, he took note of their distress,

Nevertheless He looked at their distress When He heard their cry;

Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, When He heard their cry;

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry:

When He heard their cry, He took note of their distress,

Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

Yet he took notice of their distress, when he heard their cry for help.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, the Lord raised up a rescuer to save them. His name was Othniel, the son of Caleb’s younger brother, Kenaz.

Sisera, who had 900 iron chariots, ruthlessly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years. Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help.

Whenever the Lord raised up a judge over Israel, he was with that judge and rescued the people from their enemies throughout the judge’s lifetime. For the Lord took pity on his people, who were burdened by oppression and suffering.

“ Don’t stop pleading with the Lord our God to save us from the Philistines!” they begged Samuel.So Samuel took a young lamb and offered it to the Lord as a whole burnt offering. He pleaded with the Lord to help Israel, and the Lord answered him.Just as Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines arrived to attack Israel. But the Lord spoke with a mighty voice of thunder from heaven that day, and the Philistines were thrown into such confusion that the Israelites defeated them.The men of Israel chased them from Mizpah to a place below Beth car, slaughtering them all along the way.Samuel then took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah. He named it Ebenezer( which means“ the stone of help”), for he said,“ Up to this point the Lord has helped us!”

So Israel was reduced to starvation by the Midianites. Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.When they cried out to the Lord because of Midian,the Lord sent a prophet to the Israelites. He said,“ This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of slavery in Egypt.I rescued you from the Egyptians and from all who oppressed you. I drove out your enemies and gave you their land.I told you,‘ I am the Lord your God. You must not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you now live.’ But you have not listened to me.”

For the Lord saw the bitter suffering of everyone in Israel, and that there was no one in Israel, slave or free, to help them.And because the Lord had not said he would blot out the name of Israel completely, he used Jeroboam II, the son of Jehoash, to save them.

Finally, they cried out to the Lord for help, saying,“ We have sinned against you because we have abandoned you as our God and have served the images of Baal.”The Lord replied,“ Did I not rescue you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites? When they oppressed you, you cried out to me for help, and I rescued you.Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. So I will not rescue you anymore.Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them rescue you in your hour of distress!”But the Israelites pleaded with the Lord and said,“ We have sinned. Punish us as you see fit, only rescue us today from our enemies.”Then the Israelites put aside their foreign gods and served the Lord. And he was grieved by their misery.

So you handed them over to their enemies, who made them suffer. But in their time of trouble they cried to you, and you heard them from heaven. In your great mercy, you sent them liberators who rescued them from their enemies.“ But as soon as they were at peace, your people again committed evil in your sight, and once more you let their enemies conquer them. Yet whenever your people turned and cried to you again for help, you listened once more from heaven. In your wonderful mercy, you rescued them many times!“ You warned them to return to your Law, but they became proud and obstinate and disobeyed your commands. They did not follow your regulations, by which people will find life if only they obey. They stubbornly turned their backs on you and refused to listen.In your love, you were patient with them for many years. You sent your Spirit, who warned them through the prophets. But still they wouldn’t listen! So once again you allowed the peoples of the land to conquer them.But in your great mercy, you did not destroy them completely or abandon them forever. What a gracious and merciful God you are!“ And now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of unfailing love, do not let all the hardships we have suffered seem insignificant to you. Great trouble has come upon us and upon our kings and leaders and priests and prophets and ancestors— all of your people— from the days when the kings of Assyria first triumphed over us until now.Every time you punished us you were being just. We have sinned greatly, and you gave us only what we deserved.Our kings, leaders, priests, and ancestors did not obey your Law or listen to the warnings in your commands and laws.Even while they had their own kingdom, they did not serve you, though you showered your goodness on them. You gave them a large, fertile land, but they refused to turn from their wickedness.“ So now today we are slaves in the land of plenty that you gave our ancestors for their enjoyment! We are slaves here in this good land.The lush produce of this land piles up in the hands of the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They have power over us and our livestock. We serve them at their pleasure, and we are in great misery.”The people responded,“ In view of all this, we are making a solemn promise and putting it in writing. On this sealed document are the names of our leaders and Levites and priests.”