Isaiah 26:16
LORD, they came to you in distress; they poured out their secret prayer when your chastenings were afflicting them.
Hosea 5:15
"I will leave and go back to my place until they admit their offense and seek my face. When affliction comes to them, they will eagerly seek me."
Deuteronomy 4:29-30
If from there you will seek the LORD your God, then you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and soul.
Judges 10:9-10
The Ammonites crossed the Jordan River to fight against the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim. As a result, Israel was deeply distressed.
1 Samuel 1:15
"No, sir!" Hannah replied. "I'm a deeply troubled woman. I've drunk neither wine nor beer. I've been pouring out my soul in the LORD's presence.
2 Chronicles 6:37-38
if they turn their hearts back to you in the land where they have been taken captive, repent, and pray to you even if they do so in the land where they have been taken captive confessing, "We have sinned, we have committed abominations, and practiced wickedness,'
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
But when he was in trouble, he sought the face of the LORD his God, humbled himself magnificently before the God of his ancestors,
Psalm 42:4
These things I will recall as I pour out my troubles within me: I used to go with the crowd in a procession to the house of God, accompanied with shouts of joy and thanksgiving.
Psalm 50:15
Call on me in the day of distress; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."
Psalm 77:1-2
I cry out to God! I cry out to God and he hears me.
Psalm 91:15
When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him in his distress. I will deliver him, and I will honor him.
Psalm 142:2
I pour out my complaint to him, telling him all of my troubles.
Isaiah 37:3
"Here is what Hezekiah says," they told him. "This day is a day of trouble, rebuke, and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is no energy to deliver them.
Jeremiah 22:23
You who live in Lebanon, who build your nest in the cedars, how you will groan when pains come upon you, pain like that of a woman giving birth.
Lamentations 2:19
Get up and cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of every hour. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord! Lift up your hands toward him for the lives of your children, who are fainting away at every street corner.
Hosea 7:14
They will not cry to me from their heart instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me.
Revelation 3:19
I correct and discipline those whom I love, so be serious and repent!