1 Kings 8:38
When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,
1 Kings 8:22
Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.
2 Chronicles 6:29
When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,
2 Chronicles 20:5-13
Jehoshaphat stood before the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the Lord's temple, in front of the new courtyard.
Job 7:11
"Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalm 32:3-4
When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.
Psalm 42:6
I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Psalm 42:9
I will pray to God, my high ridge: "Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?"
Psalm 42:11
Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.
Psalm 50:15
Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"
Psalm 73:21-22
Yes, my spirit was bitter, and my insides felt sharp pain.
Psalm 91:15
When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.
Psalm 142:3-5
Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.
Isaiah 37:4
Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.'"
Isaiah 37:15-21
Hezekiah prayed before the Lord:
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, those who serve the Lord, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say, "Have pity, O Lord, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, "Where is their God?"
Amos 7:1-6
The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.)
Romans 7:24
Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.