Tehillim 106:44

44 Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, when He heard their rinnah (cry of grief);

Tehillim 106:44 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 106:44

Nevertheless he regarded their affliction
Or "looked on them in distress" ^F4; he saw their affliction, and had compassion on them; he was so far from abhorring and despising the affliction of the afflicted, that he pitied them and sympathized with them; in all their afflictions he was afflicted; he looked upon them with an eye of pity and concern, and helped them out of their troubles.

When he heard their cry;
or their "prayer", as the Targum, and so other versions; crying is prayer; and it denotes vocal and vehement prayer, such as is put up to God in distress; and which he hears and answers; his ears are open to the cries of his people.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (Mhl rub aryw) "et vidit in angustia eis", Montanus, Gejerus; so Musculus, Tigurine version.

Tehillim 106:44 In-Context

42 Their oyevim also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their yad.

43 Many times did He deliver them; but they provoked Him with their etzah (counsel), and so perished in their avon (iniquity).

44 Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, when He heard their rinnah (cry of grief);

45 And He remembered for their sake His Brit, and relented according to the multitude of His chasadim (lovingkindnesses).

46 He made them also to be pitied with rachamim by all those that carried them away as captives.