9 Bible Verses about Prayer In Discouragement

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face. O my God, my soul will be bowed down upon me: for this I will remember from the land of Jordan and the Hermonites, from the mountain of smallness Deep calling to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.read more.
The day Jehovah will command his mercy, and in the night the song with me; the prayer to the God of my life. 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? Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face and my God.

And the Egyptians did us evil, and humbled us, and they will distribute to us hard service. And we shall cry to Jehovah the God of our fathers, and Jehovah will hear our voice, and will see our affliction and our labor and our oppression.

In straits to me I will call Jehovah, And to God will I call, And he will hear my voice from his temple, And my cry in his ears.

If evil shall come upon us, the sword, judgment, and death and famine, we shall stand before this house and before thee, for thy name is upon this house, and we will cry to thee from our straits, and thou wilt hear, and thou wilt save.

And now our God, the great the mighty, and the terrible God, watching the covenant and the mercy, it shall not be little before thee all the distress which found us, to our kings, to our chiefs, to our priests, and to our prophets, and to our fathers, and to all thy people from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day.

Pity me, O Jehovah, for straits are to me: mine eye fell away; with trouble my soul and my belly. For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away. From all mine enemies I was a reproach, and greatly to my neighbors, and a fear to those knowing me: they seeing me without fled from me.read more.
I was forgotten as the dead from the heart: I was a vessel perishing.

As the twittering swallow so shall I chirp: I shall murmur as the dove: mine eyes languished for height: O Jehovah, oppression is to me; be surety for me.

Because I afflicted not sorrow upon myself, my heart was sick upon me. Behold the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from the land of those being far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? or her king not in her? wherefore did they irritate me with their carved images, with strange vanities?

And Jonah will pray to Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish, And he will say, I called out of straits to me to Jehovah, and he will answer me; from the belly of hades I cried for help, thou heardest my voice.