Bible Verses About Prayer Under Affliction

Turn your ear, ADONAI, and hear! Open your eyes, ADONAI, and see! Hear the words that Sancheriv sent to taunt the living God.

Now therefore, ADONAI our God, please save us from his power - so that all the kingdoms on earth will know that you are ADONAI, God - you only."

Our God! Won't you execute judgment against them? For we haven't strength enough to defeat this huge horde coming against us, and we don't know what to do, but our eyes are on you."

"'Now therefore, our God, great, mighty, fearsome God, who keeps both covenant and grace: let not all this suffering seem little to you that has come on us, our kings, our leaders, our cohanim, our prophets, our ancestors, and on all your people, from the times of the kings of Ashur until this very day.

"Teach me, and I will be silent. Make me understand how I am at fault.

I will say to God, 'Don't condemn me! Tell me why you are contending with me.

How many crimes and sins have I committed? Make me know my transgression and sin.

Why do you hide your face and think of me as your enemy?

teach me what I have failed to see; and if I have done wrong, I will do it no more'?

Many ask, "Who can show us some good?" ADONAI, lift the light of your face over us!

Be gracious to me, ADONAI, because I am withering away; heal me, ADONAI, because my bones are shaking;

"Have mercy on me, ADONAI! See how I suffer from those who hate me; you raise me from the gates of death,

hy, ADONAI, do you stand at a distance? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Protect me like the pupil of your eye, hide me in the shadow of your wings

from the wicked, who are assailing me, from my deadly enemies, who are all around me.

The troubles of my heart are growing and growing; bring me out of my distress.

God! Redeem Isra'el from all their troubles!

Teach me your way, ADONAI; lead me on a level path because of my enemies

"Make me grasp, ADONAI, what my end must be, what it means that my days are numbered; let me know what a transient creature I am.

Rescue me from all my transgressions; don't make me the butt of fools.

Stop raining blows on me; the pounding of your fist is wearing me down.

Hear my prayer, ADONAI, listen to my cry, don't be deaf to my weeping; for with you, I am just a traveler passing through, like all my ancestors.

Turn your gaze from me, so I can smile again before I depart and cease to exist.

For the leader. A psalm of David, when Natan the prophet came to him after his affair with Bat-Sheva: God, in your grace, have mercy on me; in your great compassion, blot out my crimes.

Let me hear the sound of joy and gladness, so that the bones you crushed can rejoice.