Isaiah 26:16
Jehovah, they came to you in their distress. When you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek me. They will seek me earnestly in their affliction.
Deuteronomy 4:29-30
From there you will seek Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your being. And you will find him!
Judges 10:9-10
The Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. Israel was greatly distressed.
1 Samuel 1:15
No, I am not drunk, she answered. I have not been drinking! I am desperate. I have prayed and poured out my troubles to Jehovah.
2 Chronicles 6:37-38
If they come to their senses, are sorry for what they've done, and plead with you in the land where they are captives, saying: We have sinned. We have done wrong. We have been wicked.
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
When he experienced distress, he begged Jehovah his God to be kind and humbled himself in front of the God of his ancestors.
Psalm 42:4
I remember these things and I pour out my heart within me. I used to go along with the crowd and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
Psalm 50:15
Call on me in times of trouble. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
Psalm 77:1-2
([Psalm of Asaph]) My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and he listened to me.
Psalm 91:15
When you call to me, I will answer you. I will be with you when you are in trouble. I will deliver you and honor you.
Psalm 142:2
I pour out my complaints in his presence and tell him my troubles.
Isaiah 37:3
They said to him: Hezekiah says: 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection. Children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.
Jeremiah 22:23
You who dwell in Lebanon nested in the cedars. How you will groan when pangs come upon you, Pain like a woman in childbirth!
Lamentations 2:19
Rise up! Cry out in the night at the beginning of the night watches. Let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down starving in every street.
Hosea 7:14
And they do not cry to me from their heart when they wail on their beds. For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble, but they turn away from me.
Revelation 3:19
I reprove and discipline those whom I love: be zealous therefore, and repent.