Bible Verses About Prayer Under Affliction

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.

Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Turn us again, God of Hosts. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Revive me, LORD, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

Don’t be furious, LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.

Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

Will you refrain yourself for these things, LORD? Will you hold your peace, and afflict us very severely?

Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.

Remember, LORD, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

LORD, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.