Cry and groaning imagery uses audible distress to picture affliction brought before God, oppression heard by God, and hope awaiting redemption.
Cry and groaning imagery uses audible distress to picture affliction brought before God, oppression heard by God, and hope awaiting redemption.
A distress-sound motif in which cries, groans, sighs, tears, or outcry signify suffering, covenant appeal, oppression, intercession, creation travail, or the longing for deliverance and judgment.
These examples show how Cry, Groaning, and Lament-Noise Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
their cry came up unto God
Israel’s groaning under bondage is heard by God in covenant remembrance.
I have heard their cry
The cry of oppression becomes the occasion for divine visitation.
I make my bed to swim
Tears and weary groaning picture deep penitential distress.
why art thou so far from... my roaring?
Lament is pictured as roaring unanswered anguish before God.
My tears have been my meat
Tears become a daily image of longing and reproach.
put thou my tears into thy bottle
Tears are pictured as remembered and recorded by God.
I did mourn as a dove
Hezekiah’s sickness is voiced through birdlike moaning and upward appeal.
the whole creation groaneth and travaileth
Creation’s groaning pictures bondage awaiting redemption.
we ourselves groan within ourselves
Believers groan as those awaiting bodily redemption.
they cried with a loud voice
Martyr outcry calls for holy and true judgment.
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