2 Samuel 22:7

World English Bible (2000)

In my distress I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry [came] into his ears.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּצַּר־לִי֙ אֶקְרָ֣א יְהוָ֔ה וְאֶל־אֱלֹהַ֖י אֶקְרָ֑א וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע מֵהֵֽיכָלוֹ֙ קוֹלִ֔י וְשַׁוְעָתִ֖י בְּאָזְנָֽיו׃

Transliteration

In ṣar-to me I ʾeqrāʾ YHWH, and to-ʾĕlōhay I ʾeqrāʾ; and wayyišmaʿ from hêkālô qôlî, and šawʿātî in ʾoznāyw.

Grammar Details

• *ṣar*: masculine noun - distress
• *ʾeqrāʾ*: Qal imperfect 1cs - I call
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD
• *ʾĕlōhay*: masculine plural noun with 1cs suffix - my God
• *wayyišmaʿ*: Qal imperfect 3ms with waw-consecutive - and he heard
• *hêkālô*: masculine noun with 3ms suffix - his temple/palace
• *qôlî*: masculine noun with 1cs suffix - my voice
• *šawʿātî*: feminine noun with 1cs suffix - my cry
• *ʾoznāyw*: feminine dual noun with 3ms suffix - his ears

Word Meanings

• *ṣar*: distress, trouble, anguish
• *ʾeqrāʾ*: call, cry out, invoke
• *hêkālô*: his temple, his palace, his sanctuary
• *šawʿātî*: my cry for help, my plea, my supplication

Referenced Verses

• Ps 116:4 : 4 Then I called on the name of Yahweh: "Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul."
• Ps 120:1 : 1 In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.
• Ps 18:6 : 6 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
• Ps 34:6 : 6 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
• Ps 34:15-17 : 15 Yahweh's eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry. 16 Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
• Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
• Exod 3:7 : 7 Yahweh said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
• 1 Kgs 8:28-30 : 28 Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day; 29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, 'My name shall be there;' to listen to the prayer which your servant shall pray toward this place. 30 Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
• Jonah 2:4 : 4 I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'
• Jonah 2:7 : 7 "When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
• Hab 2:20 : 20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!"
• Matt 26:38-39 : 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me." 39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."
• Luke 22:44 : 44 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
• Heb 5:7 : 7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
• Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.