Psalm 18:6 {17:7}
Good News Translation
In my trouble I called to the LORD; I called to my God for help. In his temple he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help.

New Revised Standard Version
In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

Contemporary English Version
I was in terrible trouble when I called out to you, but from your temple you heard me and answered my prayer.

New American Bible
In my distress I called out: LORD! I cried out to my God. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry to him reached his ears.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

distress

Psalm 18:3,4 Praising, I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies. . . .

Psalm 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 130:1,2 A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord: . . .

Mark 14:36 And he saith: Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee: remove this chalice from me; but not what I will, but what thou wilt.

Acts 12:5 Peter therefore was kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing by the church unto God for him.

heard

Psalm 5:7 But as for me in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy house; I will worship towards thy holy temple, in thy fear.

Psalm 11:4 For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

Psalm 27:4,5 One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple. . . .

2 Samuel 22:7 In my distress I will call upon the Lord, and I will cry to my God: and he will hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry shall come to his ears.

Habakkuk 2:20 But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven: and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple. And there were lightnings and voices and an earthquake and great hail.

my cry

Exodus 2:23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.

1 Kings 8:27-30 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built? . . .

2 Chronicles 30:27 And the priests and the Levites rose up and blessed the people: and their voice was heard: and their prayer came to the holy dwelling place of heaven.

Context
The LORD is My Rock
5The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me. 6In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.7The earth shook and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were troubled and were moved, because he was angry with them.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:23
If you hurt them, they will cry out to me, and I will hear their cry:

Deuteronomy 4:30
After all the things aforesaid shall find thee, in the latter time thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, and shalt hear his voice.

Psalm 3:4
I have cried to the Lord with my voice: and he hath heard me from his holy hill.

Psalm 4:1
Unto the end, in verses. A psalm for David. [2] When I called upon him, the God of my justice heard me: when I was in distress, thou hast enlarged me. Have mercy on me: and hear my prayer.

Psalm 11:4
For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

Psalm 27:4
One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple.

Psalm 31:22
But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

Psalm 34:15
The eyes of the Lord are upon the just: and his ears unto their prayers.

Psalm 50:15
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Psalm 66:14
Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

Psalm 66:19
Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of my supplication.

Psalm 88:2
Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.

Psalm 116:4
And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.

Psalm 118:5
In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.

Psalm 119:169
Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me understanding according to thy word.

Psalm 120:1
In my trouble I cried to the Lord: and he heard me.

Jonah 2:2
And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish.

Jonah 2:7
I went down to the lowest parts of the mountains: the bars of the earth have shut me up for ever: and thou wilt bring up my life from corruption, O Lord, my God.

Psalm 18:5
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