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Psa. 77:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my κsore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

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Psa. 18:6• ⁶In my distress I call upon Jehovah,{HR}And unto my God do I cry for help;{HR}From his temple heareth he my voice,{HR}And my supplication before him cometh into his ears. (Psa. 18:6)

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Psa. 50:15• ¹⁵And call upon me in the day of trouble:{HR}I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Psa. 50:15)

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Psa. 88:1‑3• ¹A song, a psalm, for the sons of Korah. To the chief musician upon Mahalath and Leannoth; an instruction of Heman the Ezrahite.{HR}O Jehovah, God of my salvation,{HR}[By] day have I cried,{HR}And in the night before thee.
²Let my prayer come before thee;{HR}Incline thine ear to my cry.
³For my soul is full of troubles,{HR}And my life draweth nigh to Sheol. (Psa. 88:1‑3)

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Psa. 102:1‑2• ¹A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and before Jehovah poureth out his complaint.{HR}Jehovah, hear my prayer,{HR}And let my cry come unto thee.
²Hide not thy face from me;{HR}In the day of my distress incline unto me thine ear;{HR}In the day I call, answer me speedily. (Psa. 102:1‑2)

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Psa. 130:1‑2• ¹A song of the ascents.{HR}Out of the depths{HR}Do I call on thee, Jehovah.
²Lord, hear (in) my voice;{HR}Let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. (Psa. 130:1‑2)

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Gen. 32:7‑12,28• ⁷Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people that [was] with him, and the sheep and the herds and the camels, into two companies .
⁸And he said, If Esau come to the one company and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.
⁹And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah, who saidst to me, Return to thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee;
¹⁰I am less than all the mercies and all the truth that thou hast shown unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two companies.
¹¹Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from Esau's hand; for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, [and] the mother with the children.
¹²And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude.
²⁸And he said, Not Jacob shall be called henceforth thy name, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God and with men, and hast prevailed. (Gen. 32:7‑12,28)

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2 Kings 19:3‑4,15‑20• ³And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
⁴It may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rab-Shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
¹⁵And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
¹⁶O Jehovah, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, O Jehovah, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
¹⁷{i}Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,{/i}
¹⁸{i}and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore have they destroyed them.{/i}
¹⁹{i}And now, Jehovah our God, I beseech thee, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou, Jehovah, art God, thou only{/i}.
²⁰{i}And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying{/i}, Thus saith the Jehovah God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. (2 Kings 19:3‑4,15‑20)

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Isa. 26:9,16• ⁹With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
¹⁶Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out a lisping [when] thy chastening [was] upon them. (Isa. 26:9,16)

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Jonah 2:1‑2• ¹Then Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish’s belly,
²and said, (Jonah 2:1‑2)

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2 Cor. 12:7‑8• ⁷And that I should not be uplifted by the exceeding greatness of the revelations, there was given to me thorn for the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be uplifted overmuch.
⁸For this I thrice besought the Lord that it might depart from me; (2 Cor. 12:7‑8)

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Heb. 5:7• ⁷who in the days of his flesh having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him that was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears, and having been heard because of his godly fear, (Heb. 5:7)

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Psa. 6:2‑3• ²Be merciful unto me, O Jehovah, for I am languishing;{HR}Heal me, O Jehovah, for my bones are terrified.
³And my soul is greatly terrified;{HR}And thou, O Jehovah, how long? (Psa. 6:2‑3)

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Psa. 38:3‑8• ³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger;{HR}There is no peace in my bones because of my sin.
⁴For mine iniquities have passed over my head;{HR}As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
⁵My wounds have stunk;{HR}They have consumed away because of my folly.
⁶I have been bowed down,{HR}I have been brought low to the utmost,{HR}All the day have I walked mourning.
⁷For my loins are filled with burning,{HR}And there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸I have been feeble and broken to the uttermost;{HR}I have groaned because of the groaning of my heart. (Psa. 38:3‑8)

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2 Chron. 6:28• ²⁸{i}If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be:{/i} (2 Chron. 6:28)

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Isa. 1:5‑6• ⁵Why be smitten any more? Ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
⁶From the sole of the foot even unto the head, there is no soundness in it : wounds, and weals, and open sores — they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil. (Isa. 1:5‑6)

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Hos. 5:13• ¹³When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound (Hos. 5:13)

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Hos. 6:1• ¹Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. (Hos. 6:1)

sore.

Heb. hand.

my soul.

Gen. 37:35• ³⁵And all his sons rose up, and all his daughters, to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. And his father wept for him. (Gen. 37:35)

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Esther 4:1‑4• ¹And when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry:
²and he came even before the king's gate; for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
³And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandments and his decree came, [there was] great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
⁴And Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came and told [it] her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcloth from off him: but he received [it] not. (Esther 4:1‑4)

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Prov. 18:14• ¹⁴The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity;{HR}But a wounded spirit who can bear? (Prov. 18:14)

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Jer. 31:15• ¹⁵Thus saith Jehovah; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not. (Jer. 31:15)

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John 11:31• ³¹The Jews therefore who were with her in the house and consoling her, having seen Mary that she quickly rose up and went out, followed her, thinking she goeth unto the tomb, that she may weep there. (John 11:31)

• In the day of trouble the godly man still looked to God and stretched out his hand to the Lord in the night (JND). (“Psalm 77” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched outb in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.

JND Translation Notes

Or "was poured out," or, "my sore ran."

W. Kelly Translation

In the day of my distress I sought the Lord (Adonai);{HR}My hand was stretched out in the night and slacked not;{HR}My soul refused to be comforted.