38 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Prayer During

LORD, bow down thy ear, and hear: open, LORD, thy eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent him to reproach the living God.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

Be not very wroth, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. read more.
Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and grievously afflict us?

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

Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.

O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shade of thy wings. From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who encompass me,

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thy anger towards us to cease. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thy anger to all generations? Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days in which thou hast afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil.

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily succor us: for we are brought very low.

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand in what I have erred.

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why thou contendest with me.

How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?

Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thy ear to me: in the day when I call, answer me speedily.

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift thou upon us the light of thy countenance.

Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word to thy servant.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are agitated.

O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Revive me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing psalms.

And immediately the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief.