1 Samuel 8:18
Good News Translation
When that time comes, you will complain bitterly because of your king, whom you yourselves chose, but the LORD will not listen to your complaints."

New Revised Standard Version
And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”

Contemporary English Version
and you will finally cry out for the LORD to save you from the king you wanted. But the LORD won't answer your prayers.

New American Bible
On that day you will cry out because of the king whom you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.

cry out

Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.

and the Lord

1 Samuel 8:13 Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.

.) In one word, that, to sustain his dignity, their king would exact the tenth of all they possessed, and be maintained in a royal manner out of their estates.'

will not hear

Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

Psalm 18:41 They cried, but there was none to save them, to the Lord: but he heard them not.

Proverbs 1:25-28 I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared. . . .

Proverbs 21:13 He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.

Isaiah 1:15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Micah 3:4 Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

Luke 13:25 But when the master of the house shall be gone in and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand without; and knock at the door, saying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are.

Context
Samuel's Warning
17Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants. 18And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves: and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:17
Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.

Proverbs 1:25
I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.

Proverbs 1:28
Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Isaiah 1:15
And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.

Micah 3:4
Who have eaten the flesh of my people, and have flayed their skin off them: and have broken, and chopped their bones as for the kettle, and as flesh in the midst of the pot.

1 Samuel 8:17
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