Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses.
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… scenes, and they each begin with some, and then they're going to follow the same pattern. You're going to hear about distress and trouble, then crying out to the Lord, and then His deliverance. So, here's the first. Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in, hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress. He led them by a straight way till they reached a city to dwell in. Let them thank the Lord for His steadfast love, for His wondrous works to the children of man, for He satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul He fills with good things. Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons, for they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High. So, he bowed their hearts down with hard labor. They fell down with none to help. …
… Look down here in verse 13. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and deepest gloom, broke away their chains. You say, okay, so what's so weird about that? This is an astounding passage. Whose bars are these? Whose gates are these? Whose chains are these? Look, they sat in darkness in deepest gloom, prisoners suffering in iron chains. But why are they chained? For they rebelled against the words of God. And they despised the counsel of the Most High. They're in prison. Now you start to realize, they're in prison, immediately beginning to realize that this is looking at a spiritual condition. These people were in prison because they broke the word of God. And look, so he subjected them to bitter labor. They're in his prison. They're behind his gates. They're behind his bars. And they cry out to him and he cuts through them. What do you mean? He cuts through his own bars. …
With His almighty breath." IV. And now the disease takes a turn. Our fourth point is THE INTERPOSITION OF THE PHYSICIAN. "Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He saves them out of their distresses. He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." The Good Physician is the true Healer. Observe when the Physician comes in—when "they cry unto the Lord in their trouble." When they cry, the Physician has come! I will not say that He has come because they cry, though that would be true—but there is deeper truth still—they cried because He came! For whenever a soul truly cries unto God, God has already blessed it by enabling it to cry. You would never have begun to pray if the Lord had not taught you. God is visiting a soul and healing it when it has enough faith in God to cast itself, with a cry, upon His mercy! I cannot hope that there is a work of Grace in you until I know that you pray. Ananias would not have believed that Paul was converted had it not been said, "Behold he prays!" Note the kind of prayer here. It was not taken out of a book and it was not a fine prayer in language, whether extempore or composed—it was a cry. You do not need to teach your children how to cry—it is the first thing a newborn child does. It needs no schoolmaster to teach it that art! Our School Boards have a great deal to teach the children of London, but they need never have a department for instruction in crying. A spiritual cry is the call of the new-born …