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Isaiah 26:16

16  O Lord, win distress they sought you;

they poured out a whispered prayer

when your discipline was upon them.

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Isaiah 26:16 — The New International Version (NIV)

16 Lord, they came to you in their distress;

when you disciplined them,

they could barely whisper a prayer.

Isaiah 26:16 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

16 Lord, In trouble have they visited thee,

They poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Isaiah 26:16 — New Living Translation (NLT)

16 Lord, in distress we searched for you.

We prayed beneath the burden of your discipline.

Isaiah 26:16 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

16 Lord, in trouble they have visited You,

They poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

Isaiah 26:16 — New Century Version (NCV)

16 Lord, people remember you when they are in trouble;

they say quiet prayers to you when you punish them.

Isaiah 26:16 — American Standard Version (ASV)

16 Jehovah, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Isaiah 26:16 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

16 Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out their whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Isaiah 26:16 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

16 O Lord, the people have come to you in trouble. 

They were humbled by oppression, by your discipline upon them. 

Isaiah 26:16 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

16 Lord, they went to You in their distress;

they poured out whispered prayers

because Your discipline fell on them.

Isaiah 26:16 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

16 O Lord, in distress they sought you,

they poured out a prayer

when your chastening was on them.

Isaiah 26:16 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

16 Yahweh, in distress they have visited you;

they poured out an incantation;

your discipline was on them.

Isaiah 26:16 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

16 Lord, when your people were suffering, they came to you.

When you punished them,

they could barely whisper a prayer.

Isaiah 26:16 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

16 O Lord, they sought You in distress;

They could only whisper a prayer,

Your chastening was upon them.


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