⁷ In the day of my trouble I send up my cry to you; for you will give me an answer.

¹⁵ Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

² Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,

⁴ I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.

⁵ Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed.

⁶ This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.

⁶ My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

⁵⁵ I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.

⁵⁶ My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.

⁵⁷ You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.

¹⁶ Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.

¹ <Maschil. Of David. A prayer when he was in the hole of the rock.> The sound of my cry went up to the Lord; with my voice I made my prayer for grace to the Lord.

¹⁵ When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

⁴⁴ And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.

³ When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

² In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

¹⁶ As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.

¹⁷ In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

¹⁸ He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.

⁶ In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.