Psalm 18:41
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New International Version (©2011)
They cried for help, but there was no one to save them-- to the LORD, but he did not answer.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They called for help, but no one came to their rescue. They even cried to the LORD, but he refused to answer.

English Standard Version (©2001)
They cried for help, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They cried for help, but there was none to save, Even to the LORD, but He did not answer them.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They cry for help, but there is no one to save them-- they cry to the LORD, but He does not answer them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They cried out for deliverance, but there was no one to deliver; they cried out to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

NET Bible (©2006)
They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the LORD, but he does not answer them.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
They will wail and there will be no savior for them; they will beg of Lord Jehovah and he will not answer them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They cried out for help, but there was no one to save them. They cried out to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

American King James Version
They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not.

American Standard Version
They cried, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.

Darby Bible Translation
They cried, and there was none to save; unto Jehovah, and he answered them not.

English Revised Version
They cried, but there was none to save: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

Webster's Bible Translation
They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not.

World English Bible
They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

Young's Literal Translation
They cry, and there is no saviour, On Jehovah, and He doth not answer them.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:32, and the following verses, are the gifts of God to the spiritual warrior, whereby he is prepared for the contest, after the example of his victorious Leader. Learn that we must seek release being made through Christ, shall be rejected. In David the type, we behold out of trouble through Christ. The prayer put up, without reconciliation Jesus our Redeemer, conflicting with enemies, compassed with sorrows and with floods of ungodly men, enduring not only the pains of death, but the wrath of God for us; yet calling upon the Father with strong cries and tears; rescued from the grave; proceeding to reconcile, or to put under his feet all other enemies, till death, the last enemy, shall be destroyed. We should love the Lord, our Strength, and our Salvation; we should call on him in every trouble, and praise him for every deliverance; we should aim to walk with him in all righteousness and true holiness, keeping from sin. If we belong to him, he conquers and reigns for us, and we shall conquer and reign through him, and partake of the mercy of our anointed King, which is promised to all his seed for evermore. Amen.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 41. - They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the Lord, but he answered them not. It seems strange, at first sight, that the heathen enemies of David should "cry unto the Lord," i.e. to Jehovah; and hence some have been driven to suppose that a victory over domestic enemies is here interpolated into the series of foreign victories. But it seems better to explain, with Hengstenberg and the 'Speaker's Commentary,' that the heathen did sometimes, as a last resort, pray to a foreign god, whom they seemed to find by experience to be more powerful than their own (see Jonah 1:14). Jehovah was known by name, as the God of the Israelites, to the surrounding nations. Mesha mentions him upon the Moabite Stone; and Sennacherib declared, by the mouth of Rabshakeh, "Am I come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord (Jehovah) said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it" (2 Kings 18:25).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They cried, but there was none to save them,.... It is in 2 Samuel 22:42; "they looked"; that is, they looked round about, here and there, to see if there were any near at hand to help and deliver them; they cried in their distress, and because of the anguish of their spirits, and for help and assistance, but in vain; they cried, as Jarchi thinks, to their idols, as Jonah's mariners cried everyone to their god; and, if so, it is no wonder there was none to save; for such are gods that cannot save: but it follows,

even unto the Lord, but he answered them not; as Saul, for instance, 1 Samuel 28:6; so God deals with wicked men, often by way of righteous retaliation; see Proverbs 1:28.

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The Lord is My Rock
…40You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. 41They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not. 42Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. …

Job 27:9 Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?
Psalm 50:22 "Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Psalm 66:18 If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;
Proverbs 1:28 "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me,
Proverbs 15:29 The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.
Micah 3:4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.