Bible Verses About Prayer Under Affliction

Lord, bow downe thine eare, and heare: Lord open thine eyes and behold, and heare the wordes of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God.

Nowe therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, saue thou vs out of his hande, that all the kingdomes of the earth may knowe, that thou, O Lord, art onely God.

O our God, wilt thou not iudge them? for there is no strength in vs to stand before this great multitude that commeth against vs, neither doe wee knowe what to doe: but our eyes are toward thee.

Nowe therefore our God, thou great God, mightie and terrible, that keepest couenant and mercie, let not all the affliction that hath come vnto vs, seeme a litle before thee, that is, to our Kings, to our princes, and to our Priests, and to our Prophets, and to our fathers, and to all thy people since the time of the Kings of Asshur vnto this day.

Teach me, and I wil hold my tongue: and cause me to vnderstande, wherein I haue erred.

I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.

Howe many are mine iniquities and sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?

But if I see not, teach thou me: if I haue done wickedly, I will doe no more.

Many say, Who will shewe vs any good? but Lord, lift vp the light of thy countenance vpon vs.

Haue mercie vpon me, O Lord, for I am weake: O Lord heale me, for my bones are vexed.

Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lord: consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate mee, thou that liftest me vp from the gates of death,

Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction?

Keepe me as the apple of the eye: hide me vnder the shadowe of thy wings,

From the wicked that oppresse mee, from mine enemies, which compasse me round about for my soule.

The sorowes of mine heart are enlarged: drawe me out of my troubles.

Deliuer Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

Teache mee thy way, O Lord, and leade me in a right path, because of mine enemies.

Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.

Deliuer me from all my transgressions, and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolish.

Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.

Heare my prayer, O Lord, and hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.

Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercie vpon me, O God, according to thy louing kindnes: according to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities.

Make me to heare ioye and gladnes, that the bones, which thou hast broken, may reioyce.