Bible Verses About Prayer Under Affliction

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”

Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast army that comes against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

Teach me, and I will be silent. Help me understand how I have erred.

I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’

Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.

Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,

Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

from the wicked who assail me, from my mortal enemies who surround me.

The troubles of my heart increase; free me from my distress.

Redeem Israel, O God, from all its distress.

Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.

“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; do not make me the reproach of fools.

Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.