when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when trouble and stress overcome you.
Job 27:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Will God hear his cry when distress comes on him? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Will God hear his cry When trouble cometh upon him? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him? American Standard Version (1901) Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him? Common English Bible Will God hear their cries when distress comes to them; Catholic Public Domain Version Will God pay attention to his cry, when anguish overcomes him? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him? |
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when trouble and stress overcome you.
Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will search for me, but won’t find me.
Anyone who turns his ear away from hearing the law – even his prayer is detestable.
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
‘Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to me, but I will not hear them.
If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague.’
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not show pity or spare them. Though they call loudly in my hearing, I will not listen to them.’
They do not cry to me from their hearts; rather, they wail on their beds. They slash themselves , for grain and new wine; they turn away from me.
Then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time because of the crimes they have committed.
Just as he had called, and they would not listen, so when they called, I would not listen, says the Lord of Armies.
once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, “Lord, open up for us! ” He will answer you, “I don’t know you or where you’re from.”
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he listens to him.
When you returned, you wept before the Lord, but he didn’t listen to your requests or pay attention to you.
You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.