Isaiah 26:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

When you punished our people, they turned and prayed to you, our LORD.

Cross References

Psalm 142:2

I tell you all my worries and my troubles,

Psalm 27:8

My heart tells me to pray. I am eager to see your face,

Psalm 42:4

Sorrow floods my heart, when I remember leading the worshippers to your house. I can still hear them shout their joyful praises.

Psalm 50:15

Pray to me in time of trouble. I will rescue you, and you will honour me.

Psalm 77:3

When I think of you, I feel restless and weak.

Psalm 78:34

After he killed some of them, the others turned to him with all their hearts.

Psalm 91:15

When you are in trouble, call out to me. I will answer and be there to protect and honour you.

Isaiah 37:3

Isaiah, these are difficult and disgraceful times. Our nation is like a woman too weak to give birth, when it's time for her baby to be born.

Jeremiah 2:27

worship stone idols and sacred poles as if they had created you and had given you life. You have rejected me, but when you're in trouble, you cry to me for help.

Jeremiah 22:23

Those who live in the palace panelled with cedar will groan with pain like women giving birth.

Jeremiah 29:12

You will turn back to me and ask for help, and I will answer your prayers.

Lamentations 2:19

Get up and pray for help all through the night. Pour out your feelings to the Lord, as you would pour water out of a jug. Beg him to save your people, who are starving to death at every street crossing.

Hosea 5:15

Then I'll return to my temple until they confess their guilt and worship me, until they are desperate and beg for my help.

Hosea 7:14

They don't really pray to me; they just howl in their beds. They have rejected me for Baal and slashed themselves, in the hope that Baal will bless their crops.

Numbers 21:7

Some of the people went to Moses and admitted, “It was wrong of us to insult you and the LORD. Now please ask him to make these snakes go away.” Moses prayed,

Revelation 3:19

I correct and punish everyone I love. So make up your minds to turn away from your sins.

Judges 10:15

“We have been unfaithful,” the Israelites admitted. “If we must be punished, do it yourself, but please rescue us from the Ammonites.”

1 Samuel 1:15

“Sir, please don't think I'm no good!” Hannah answered. “I'm not drunk, and I haven't been drinking. But I do feel miserable and terribly upset. I've been praying all this time, telling the LORD about my problems.”