Bible Verses About Prayer Under Affliction

Don't thrust me away from your presence, don't take your Ruach Kodesh away from me.

Restore my joy in your salvation, and let a willing spirit uphold me.

Meanwhile, I am afflicted and hurting; God, let your saving power raise me up.

Don't count past iniquities against us, but let your compassion come quickly to meet us, for we have been brought very low.

God of armies, restore us! Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

Restore us, God of our salvation, renounce your displeasure with us.

Are you to stay angry with us forever? Will your fury last through all generations?

Won't you revive us again, so your people can rejoice in you?

Fill us at daybreak with your love, so that we can sing for joy as long as we live.

Let our joy last as long as the time you made us suffer, for as many years as we experienced trouble.

Don't hide your face from me when I am in such distress! Turn your ear toward me; when I call, be quick to reply!

Let your grace comfort me, in keeping with your promise to your servant.

Teach me to do your will, because you are my God; Let your good Spirit guide me on ground that is level.

For your name's sake, ADONAI, preserve my life; in your righteousness, bring me out of distress.

Do not be so very angry, ADONAI! Don't remember crime forever. Look, please, we are all your people.

Your holy cities have become a desert, Tziyon a desert, Yerushalayim a ruin.

Our holy, beautiful house, where our ancestors used to praise you, has been burned to the ground; all we cherished has been ruined.

ADONAI, after all this, will you still hold back? Will you still stay silent and punish us past endurance?

Heal me, ADONAI, and I will be healed; save me, and I will be saved, for you are my praise.

"I hear Efrayim bemoaning himself: 'You disciplined me, and I took your discipline like a young ox not used to a yoke. Let me return, and I will return, for you are ADONAI, my God.

Remember, ADONAI, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.

ADONAI, I have heard the report about you. ADONAI, I am awed by your deeds. Bring your work to life in our own age, make it known in our own time; but in anger, remember compassion.

Instantly the father of the child exclaimed, "I do trust -- help my lack of trust!"

Is someone among you in trouble? He should pray. Is someone feeling good? He should sing songs of praise.