26 Bible Verses about Prayer, Doubts About

And Moses returned to LORD, and said, LORD, why have thou dealt ill with this people? Why is it that thou have sent me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he has dealt ill with this people, neither have thou delivered thy people at all.

And Abram said, O lord LORD, what will thou give me, since I go childless. And he who shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, thou have given no seed to me. And, lo, a man born in my house is my heir.

And Joshua said, Alas, O lord LORD, why have thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? Would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan! Oh, LORD, what shall I say after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies! For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will encompass us around, and cut off our name from the earth, and what will thou do for thy great name?

And Moses said to LORD, Why have thou dealt ill with thy servant? And why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou lay the burden of all this people upon me? Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that thou should say to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which thou swore to their fathers? From where should I have flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.read more.
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness.

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my

O LORD, thou know. Remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. Take me not away in thy longsuffering. Know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach. Thy words were found, and I ate them. And thy words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart. For I am called by thy name, O LORD, God of hosts. I did not sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor did I rejoice. I sat alone because of thy hand, for thou have filled me with indignation.read more.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will thou indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

O LORD, thou have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. Thou are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all the day; everyone mocks me. For as often as I speak, I cry out. I cry, Violence and destruction! Because the word of LORD is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day. And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundan Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a great voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me?

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a great voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me?

My God, my God, why have thou forsaken me, far from helping me, [and] the words of my groaning?

I will say to God, Do not condemn me. Show me why thou contend with me. Is it good to thee that thou should oppress, that thou should despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? Have thou eyes of flesh? Or do thou see as man sees?read more.
Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days, that thou inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin, although thou know that I am not wicked. And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand? Thy hands have made me and fashioned me together round about, yet thou destroy me. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again? Have thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. Thou have granted me life and loving kindness, and thy visitation has preserved my spirit. Yet these things thou hid in thy heart. I know that this is with thee. If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity. If I be wicked, woe to me. And if I be righteous, yet I shall not lift up my head, being filled with shame, and looking upon my affliction. And if [my head] exalts itself, thou hunt me as a lion. And again thou show thyself marvelous upon me. Thou renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thine indignation upon me. Changes and warfare are with me. Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave. Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death, the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.

Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from thy face: Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid. Then call thou, and I will answer, or let me speak, and answer thou me.read more.
How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy? Will thou harass a driven leaf? And will thou pursue the dry stubble? For thou write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth. Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.

Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue. And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee?read more.
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass, look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day. For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch of it will not cease. Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the trunk of it dies in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant. But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? [As] the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes away and dries up, so man lays down and does not rise. Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me! If a man dies, shall he live [again]? All the days of my warfare I would wait till my release should come. Thou would call, and I would answer thee. Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands. But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin? My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou fasten up my iniquity. But the falling mountain comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of its place. The waters wear the stones. The overflowings of it wash away the dust of the earth. So thou destroy the hope of man. Thou prevail forever against him, and he passes. Thou change his countenance, and send him away. His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them. But his flesh upon him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.

How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

I will say to God my rock, Why have thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

Yea, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Awake, why do thou sleep, O LORD? Arise, cast not off forever. Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?read more.
For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body clings to the ground. Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving kindness' sake.

Will LORD cast off forever? And will he be favorable no more? Has his loving kindness entirely gone forever? Does his promise fail for evermore? Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

O LORD God of hosts, how long will thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure. Thou make us hatred to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps. Thy wrath lays hard upon me, and thou have afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. Thou have put my acquaintances far from me. Thou have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.read more.
My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.

O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou will not hear? I cry out to thee of violence, and thou will not save. Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.

And Abram said, O lord LORD, what will thou give me, since I go childless. And he who shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, Behold, thou have given no seed to me. And, lo, a man born in my house is my heir. And, behold, the word of LORD came to him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir, but he who shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.read more.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be.

And LORD said to Moses, Now thou shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For by a strong hand he shall let them go, and by a strong hand he shall drive them out of his land. And God spoke to Moses, and said to him, I am LORD. And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name LORD.read more.
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojourning, in which they sojourned. And moreover I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant. Therefore say to the sons of Israel, I am LORD. And I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments. And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God, and ye shall know that I am LORD your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you in to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you for a heritage. I am LORD.

And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and also how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life. And he came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.read more.
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my And he lay down and slept under a juniper tree, and, behold, a [heavenly] agent touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat. And he looked, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water. And he ate and drank, and laid him down again. And the agent of LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat because the journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.

Therefore thus says LORD: If thou return, then I will bring thee again that thou may stand before me. And if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shall be as my mouth. They shall return to thee, but thou shall not retur And I will make thee to this people a fortified brazen wall. And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee. For I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, says LORD. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

Behold ye {scoffers (LXX/NT)}, and look, and wonder marvelously. For I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you. For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs. They are fearful and dreadful. Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.read more.
Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. And their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from far. They fly as an eagle that hastens to devour. They come all of them for violence. The set of their faces is forwards, and they gather captives as the sand. Yea, he scoffs at kings, and rulers are a derision to him. He derides every stronghold, for he heaps up dust, and takes it. Then he shall sweep by [as] a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty; he whose might is his god.