38 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Prayer During

Turn your ear (listen) (pay attention) to me, O Jehovah, and listen. Open your eyes, Jehovah, and see. Listen to the message Sennacherib sent to defy the living God.

Now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be respected, who keeps faith and mercy, do not let his trouble seem small to you. It has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.

Be merciful to me, O Jehovah! See the sufferings my enemies cause me! Rescue me from death, O Jehovah.

Keep in mind, O Jehovah, what has come to us. Take note and see our shame.

My troubles have increased. Relieve my troubled heart, and bring me out of my distress.

Remove the plague you laid upon me. My life is over because you apposed me with your hand.

Do not be too angry, Jehovah. Do not remember our sin forever. Now look, we are all your people. Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a desert. Jerusalem is a wasteland. Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined. read more.
Despite these things, Jehovah, will you restrain yourself? Will you be silent and make us suffer beyond measure?

Heal me, O Jehovah, and I will be healed! Save me and I will be saved! For you are my song of praise.

Rescue us from Assyria's control, O Jehovah our God, so that all the kingdoms on earth will know that you alone are Jehovah God.

You are our God. Will you judge them? We do not have the strength to face this large crowd that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, so we are looking to you.

Keep me as if I were the pupil (apple) of your eye (center of attention). Hide me in the shadow of your wings. Hide me from wicked people who violently attack me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.

I hear the people of Israel say in grief, 'Jehovah, we were like an untamed animal, but you taught us to obey. Bring us back for we are ready to return to you, Jehovah our God.

O God, commander of armies, restore us and smile on us so that we may be saved.

Restore us, O God of our salvation. Put an end to your anger against us. Will you be angry with us forever? Will you ever let go of your anger in the generations to come? Will you not restore our lives again so that your people may find joy in you?

Make me hear sounds of joy and gladness. Let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

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

Satisfy us every morning with your loving kindness so that we may sing for joy and rejoice all our days. Make us rejoice for as many days as you have made us suffer, for as many years as we have experienced evil.

Have you asked God to show you your faults, and have you agreed to stop doing evil?

Teach me your way, O Jehovah. Lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground.

Deliver me from all my sin. Do not disgrace me in front of godless fools.

([[Psalm of David] when the prophet Nathan came to him after David's adultery with Bathsheba:]) Have mercy on me, O God, in keeping with your loving-kindness. According to your unlimited compassion, wipe out my transgressions.

Do not hold the crimes of our ancestors against us. Reach out to us soon with your compassion, because we are helpless.

Teach me, and I will be quiet. Show me where I have been wrong.

I will say to God: 'Do not condemn me, but tell me what charges you have against me.

How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my transgressions and my sin. Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?

Why are you so distant, Jehovah? Why do you hide in times of trouble?

Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Incline your ear to me. In the day when I call answer me quickly.

Many are saying: Who will show us good? Lift up the light of your countenance (face) (presence) upon us, O Jehovah!

O may your loving kindness comfort me as you promise in your word.

Be merciful to me, Jehovah, for I am faint. O Jehovah, heal me, for my bones are in agony.

O Jehovah, I heard the report about you and I am afraid of your actions. O Jehovah, make it live in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known! When you are angry remember mercy.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my fathers. Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.

For the sake of your name, O Jehovah, revive me. In your righteousness bring me out of trouble.

Do not force me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

Jehovah, please make me to know my end. What is the extent of my days? Let me know how temporary (frail) (destitute) I am.

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

Both father and child immediately shouted: I have faith make my faith stronger.