27 Bible Verses about Prayer, Doubts About

And Moses will turn back to Jehovah, and he will say, My Lord, why didst thou evil to this people? wherefore for this didst, thou send me? And from the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he did evil to this people: and delivering, thou didst not deliver thy people.

And Abram will say, My Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give to me, and I going childless, and the son of Masek in my house, he Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram will say, Behold, to me thou gavest no seed, and behold the son of my house shall inherit me.

And Joshua will say, Ah! Lord Jehovah, wherefore, passing over, didst thou cause this people to pass over Jordan, to give us into the hand of the Amorite, to destroy us? and would we were contented and dwelt on the other side of Jordan With leave, O Lord, what to say, after that Israel turned back the neck before his enemies. And the Canaanite and all inhabiting the land shall hear, and they encompassed about us, and they cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?

And Moses will say to Jehovah, For what hest thou done evil to thy servant? and for what did I not find grace in thine eyes, to put the debt of all this people upon me? Did I form all this people? did I beget them? for thou wilt say to me, Lift them up into thy bosom, as a nurse will lift up the sucking child upon the land which thou swarest to their fathers. Whence to me flesh to give to all this people? for they weep upon me, saying, Thou shalt give to us flesh and we shall eatread more.
I shall not be able to lift up alone all this people, for it is heavy for me. And if so thou doest to me, killing, kill me now, if I found grace in thine eyes; and I shall not look upon my evil

And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

Thou knewest, O Jehovah: remember me, and review me, and avenge for me from him pursuing me; not for being slow of thy wrath wilt thou take me away; know, I suffered reproach for thee. Thy words were found, and eating them; and thy word will be to me for the gladness and for the joy of my heart: for thy name was called upon me, Jehovah the God of armies. I sat not in the assembly of those mocking, and I will not exult; from the face of thy hand I sat alone, for thou didst fill me with anger.read more.
Wherefore was my pain everlasting and my blow incurable, refusing to be healed? Being, wilt thou be to me as falsehood, the waters were not faithful?

Thou didst persuade me, O Jehovah, and I shall be persuaded: thou didst hold me fast, and thou wilt prevail: I was for a derision all the day, all mocking to me. For as often as I shall speak I shall cry; violence and oppression I shall call; for the word of Jehovah was to me for a reproach and for a derision all the day. And I said, I will not bring him to remembrance, and I will no more speak in his name. And it was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was wearied to endure, and I shall not be able.

And it will be evil to Jonah, a great evil, and it will kindle to him. And he will pray to Jehovah and say, Ah, now, O Jehovah, was not this my word while I was upon my land? For this I anticipated to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou art merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and of much kindness, and lamenting for evil. And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.

And about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani I this is, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, for what hast thou forsaken me?

To the overseer upon the first place of the dawn; chanting of David. My God, my God, wherefore forsookest thou me? far off from my salvation the words of my groaning.

Saying to God, Thou wilt not condemn me; make known to me for what thou wilt contend with me. Is it good to thee that thou wilt oppress, that thou wilt despise the labor of thy hinds, and thou didst shine upon the counsels of the unjust? Were eyes of flesh to thee? or wilt thou see as man saw?read more.
Are thy days as man's days? or thy years as the days of man? That thou wilt seek for mine iniquity, and wilt search out for my sins? Upon thy knowledge that I will not do evil; and none delivering from thy hand. Thy hands formed me, and they will work me together round about; and thou wilt swallow me down. Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust. Wilt thou not weigh me out as milk, and coagulate me as cheese? Thou wilt clothe me with skin and flesh, and thou wilt hedge me with bones and sinews. Thou didst with me life and mercy, and thy reviewing watched my spirit And these thou didst hide in thy heart: I knew that this is with thee. If I sinned; and thou didst watch me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. If I did evil, wo to me; and was I just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with dishonor: and see thou mine affliction; And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me. Thou wilt renew thy testimonies before me, and thou wilt increase thy wrath upon me; changes and war with me. And wherefore didst thou bring Me forth from the belly? I shall expire, and eye shall not see me. I shall be as I was not; I shall be brought from the womb to the grave. Is it not my days few? He will cease; he will turn from me, and I shall be cheerful a little, Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.

Only two things thou wilt not do with me: then I shall not hide from thy face. Remove thy hand far from me, and thy terror shall not make me afraid. And call and I will answer, and I shall speak, and turn thou to me.read more.
How many iniquities and sins to me? make known to me my transgression and my sin. Why wilt thou hide thy face, and reckon me for an enemy to thee? Wilt thou terrify the scattered leaf? and wilt thou pursue the dry straw? For thou wilt write bitter things against me; and thou wilt give me to inherit the iniquities of my youth. And thou wilt set my feet in the stocks, and thou wilt watch all my paths; thou wilt dig round the roots of my feet

Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand. Also upon this one didst thou open thine eyes? and wilt thou bring Me into judgment with thee?read more.
For who shall give a clean thing from an unclean? Not one. If his days are determined, the number of his months with thee; thou madest his limit; he shall not pass over. Look away from him and be shall cease, till he shall delight as an hireling in his day. For there is hope for a tree if it shall be cut down, and it shall yet revive, and its suckers shall not cease. If its root shall grow old in the earth, and its trunk shall die in the dust From the smell of water it will break forth, and make foliage as a plant And man will die and be weak: and man will expire, and where is he? The waters departed from the sea, and the river will be wasted and dried up; And man lay down and he will not rise: till the heavens be no more they shall not awake and rise from their sleep. Who will give thou wilt hide me in hades? wilt thou cover me till the turning away of thine anger? wilt thou set for me a limit, and wilt thou remember me? If a man die, shall he live? All the days of my warfare I will wait till the coming of my change. Thou shalt call and I will answer thee: thou wilt long for the work of thy hands. For now thou wilt count my steps: wilt thou not watch over my sin? My transgression is sealed up in a purse, and thou wilt patch upon mine iniguity. And yet the mountain falling shill decay, and the rock shall be removed from its place. The waters rubbed the stones: thou wilt overflow the flowings of the dust of the earth; and thou didst destroy the hope of man. Thou wilt overpower him forever, and he will go away: changing his face, thou wilt send him away. His sons will be honored and he knew not: they will be brought low, and he will not understand for them. But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul upon him shall mourn.

To the overseer; chanting of David. How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou wholly forget me? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

I will say to God my rock, Wherefore didst thou forget me? wherefore darkened shall I go for the oppression of the enemy? With a breaking of my bones mine enemies reproached me, in their saying all the day, Where their God?

For, for thee we were killed all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of the slaughter. Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever. Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression?read more.
For our soul was bowed down to the dust: our belly was glued to the earth. Arise a help for us, and redeem us for sake of thy mercy.

Will Jehovah reject forever? and will he no more add to be satisfied? Did his mercy fail forever? his word come to an end to generation and generation? Did God forget to compassionate? or in anger did he gather his compassion? Silence.

O Jehovah, God of armies, how long didst thou smoke against the prayer of thy people? Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure. Thou wilt set us a strife to our neighbors, and our enemies will deride to themselves.

Thou didst set me in the pit beneath, in darknesses, in the shades. Thy wrath lay upon me, and thou didst afflict with all thy breakers. Silence. Thou didst remove far from me mine acquaintance; thou didst set me an abomination to them: I was shut up, and I shall not go forth.read more.
Mine eye languished from affliction: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all the day, I stretched my hands to thee.

How long, O Jehovah, did I cry for help, and thou wilt not bear? I will cry to thee violence, and thou wilt not save. Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up.

And Abram will say, My Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give to me, and I going childless, and the son of Masek in my house, he Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram will say, Behold, to me thou gavest no seed, and behold the son of my house shall inherit me. And behold, the word of Jehovah was to him, saying, This shall not inherit thee, for truly he who shall come forth from thy bowels shall inherit thee.read more.
And he will bring him forth without, and will say, Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to count them: and he will say to him, So shall be thy seed.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand will he send them forth, and with a strong hand will he drive them out of his land. And God will speak to Moses, and will say to him, I am Jehovah. And I shall be seen to Abraham, to Isaak, and to Jacob, by God Almighty; and my name Jehovah I was not known to them.read more.
And also have I set my covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, which they sojourned upon it And also I heard the groaning of the sons of Israel whom the Egyptians have made to serve: and I will remember my covenant For this say thou to the sons of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I brought you forth from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I delivered you from their work, and I redeemed you with an arm stretched out and with great judgments. And I took you to me for a people, and I was to you for God: and ye knew that I was Jehovah your God, having brought you forth from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I brought you to a land which I lifted up my hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaak, and to Jacob, and I gave it to you a possession: I am Jehovah.

And Ahab will announce to Jezebel all that Elijah did, and all how he killed all the prophets with the sword. And Jezebel will send a messenger to Elijah, saying, Thus will God do and thus will he add that according to the time to-morrow I will set thy soul as the soul of one of them. And he will see and arise, and go for his soul, and he will come to the Well of the Oath which was to Judah, and he will leave his boy there.read more.
And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers. And he will lie down and sleep udder one broom-tree, and behold, then a messenger touched upon him, and he will say to him, Arise, eat And he will look, and behold, from his head cakes baked on hot stones, and a cruse of water: and he will eat and drink, and turn back and lie down. And the messenger of Jehovah will turn back the second time, and he will touch upon him, and say, Arise, eat, for much for thee the way. And he will rise and eat and drink, and go in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, even to the mountain of God, Horeb.

And Jehovah will answer Job, and he will say, Shall he contending with the Almighty, instruct? he reproving God shall answer it And Job will answer Jehovah, and say,read more.
Behold, I was vile; what shall I turn back to thee? I put my hand to my mouth. Once I sake, and I will not answer: and twice, and I will not add. And Jehovah will answer Job from the whirlwind, and he will say, Gird up now thy loins as a man; I will ask thee, and do thou make known to me. Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me so that thou shalt be just? And if an arm to thee as God? and with thy voice wilt thou thunder as he?

For this, thus said Jehovah, If thou wilt turn back, and I will turn thee back, thou shalt stand before me: and if thou shalt bring forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth: they shall turn back to thee and thou shalt not turn back to them. And I gave thee to this people for a wall of brass, fortified: and they shall war against thee, and they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, says Jehovah. And I delivered thee out of the hand of the evil, and I redeemed thee from the hand of the terrible.

See ye among the nations, and look, and wonder; ye shall wonder: for the working a work in your days ye will not believe if it shall be recounted. For behold me raising up the Chaldeans, the nation bitter and hasty, going upon the wide places of the land to possess the dwelling not to him. He terrible and dreadful: his judgment and his elevation shall come forth from himself,read more.
And his horses were swift above panthers, and they were sharp above the wolves of the evening: and his horsemen were spread, and his horsemen shall come from far off; they shall fly as the eagle hastening to eat Wholly for violence shall he come: the host of their faces forwards, and he shall gather a captivity as the sand. And he shall scoff at kings, and princes a derision to him: at every fortress he shall deride, and he shall heap up dust and take it Then the spirit changed, and he will pass over, and he transgressed: this his strength is his God.