38 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Prayer During

Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes, and see; and hear Thou the words of Sennacherib with which he hath sent him to reproach the living God.

And now, O our God -- God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness -- let not all the travail that hath found us be little before Thee, for our kings, for our heads, and for our priests, and for our prophets, and for our fathers, and for all Thy people, from the days of the kings of Asshur unto this day;

Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.

The distresses of my heart have enlarged themselves, From my distresses bring me out.

Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

Be not wroth, O Jehovah, very sore, Nor for ever remember iniquity, Lo, look attentively, we beseech Thee, Thy people are we all. Thy holy cities have been a wilderness, Zion a wilderness hath been, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, Where praise Thee did our fathers, Hath become burnt with fire, And all our desirable things have become a waste. read more.
For these dost Thou refrain Thyself, Jehovah? Thou art silent, and dost afflict us very sore!'

Heal me, O Jehovah, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise art Thou.

And now, O Jehovah our God, save us, we pray Thee, out of his hand, and know do all kingdoms of the earth that Thou art Jehovah God -- Thyself alone.'

O our God, dost Thou not execute judgment upon them? for there is no power in us before this great multitude that hath come against us, and we know not what we do, but on Thee are our eyes.'

Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me. From the face of the wicked who spoiled me. Mine enemies in soul go round against me.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, 'Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God.

God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

Turn back to us, O God of our salvation, And make void Thine anger with us. To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation? Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

Thou causest me to hear joy and gladness, Thou makest joyful bones Thou hast bruised.

And I am afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.

Satisfy us at morn with Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days. Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

Besides that which I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?'

Shew me, O Jehovah, Thy way, And lead me in a path of uprightness, For the sake of my beholders.

Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God -- Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.

From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

Shew me, and I -- I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.

I say unto God, 'Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive with me.

How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know. Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

Hide not Thou Thy face from me, In a day of mine adversity, Incline unto me Thine ear, In the day I call, haste, answer me.

Many are saying, 'Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,

Let, I pray Thee, Thy kindness be to comfort me, According to Thy saying to Thy servant.

Favour me, O Jehovah, for I am weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,

O Jehovah, I heard thy report, I have been afraid, O Jehovah, Thy work! in midst of years revive it, In the midst of years Thou makest known In anger Thou dost remember mercy.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers. Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

For Thy name's sake O Jehovah, Thou dost quicken me, In Thy righteousness, Thou bringest out from distress my soul,

Cast me not forth from Thy presence, And Thy Holy Spirit take not from me.

Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it is,' I know how frail I am.

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

and immediately the father of the child, having cried out, with tears said, 'I believe, sir; be helping mine unbelief.'