Bible Verses About Prayer Under Affliction

Incline your ear, LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent to defy the living God.

Now therefore, LORD our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, LORD, are God alone.”

Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you.”

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” LORD, let the light of your face shine on us.

Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint. LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles.

Teach me your way, LORD. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

“LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.