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Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Job 27:9 OT

  Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

• Job 35:12 OT

  There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

• Job 35:13 OT

  Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

• Luke 18:11 NT

  The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

• Luke 18:12 NT

  I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

• Luke 18:14 NT

  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

• Psalms 18:40 OT

  You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

• Psalms 18:41 OT

  They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

• Micah 3:2-4 OT

  You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones; who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the…

• Genesis 17:20 OT

  As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

• Genesis 19:19-21 OT

  See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die. See now, this city is near to…

• Genesis 24:15-27 OT

  Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder. The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man…

• Genesis 32:24-30 OT

  Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day. When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled. The…

• Exodus 2:23 OT

  In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

• Exodus 2:24 OT

  God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

• Exodus 17:4-6 OT

  Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.” Yahweh said to Moses, “Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you…

• Exodus 17:11-13 OT

  When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one…

• Exodus 32:11-14 OT

  Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought…

• Judges 15:18 OT

  He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

• Judges 15:19 OT

  But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.

• 1 Samuel 1:27 OT

  I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

• 1 Samuel 7:9 OT

  Samuel took a suckling lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.

• 1 Kings 3:9 OT

  Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

• 1 Kings 3:12 OT

  behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.