Psalm 77:2

Confidence In A Time Of Crisis

¹ My voice rises to God, and I will cry aloud;
My voice rises to God, and He will hear me.
² 
In the day of my trouble I [desperately] sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out [in prayer] without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.
³
I remember God; then I am disquieted and I groan;
I sigh [in prayer], and my spirit grows faint. Selah.

Day of Trouble

Lifted Up

Seek the Lord

Sought the Lord

Time of Trouble

To the Lord

Turned to the Lord

Jehovah

Genesis 37:35

Then all his sons and daughters attempted to console him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “I will go down to Sheol (the place of the dead) in mourning for my son.” And his father wept for him.

Psalm 50:15

Call on Me in the day of trouble;
I will rescue you, and you shall honor and glorify Me.”

Isaiah 26:9

In the night my soul longs for You [O Lord],
Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;
For [only] when Your judgments are experienced on the earth
Will the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

Isaiah 26:16

O Lord, they sought You in distress;
They managed only a prayerful whisper
When Your discipline was upon them.

Genesis 32:7-12

Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps;

Genesis 32:28

And He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

2 Kings 19:3-4

They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This is a day of distress and anxiety, of punishment and humiliation; for children have come to [the time of their] birth and there is no strength to rescue them.

2 Kings 19:15-20

Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim [of the ark in the temple], You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.

2 Chronicles 6:28

“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, if there are [migratory] locusts or grasshoppers, if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or whatever sickness there is,

Esther 4:1-4

Now when Mordecai learned of everything that had been done, he tore his clothes [in mourning], and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the center of the city and cried out loudly and bitterly.

Job 11:13

“If you direct your heart [on the right path]
And stretch out your hands to Him,

Psalm 6:2-3

Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak (faint, frail);
Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed and anguished.

Psalm 18:6

In my distress [when I seemed surrounded] I called upon the Lord
And cried to my God for help;
He heard my voice from His temple,
And my cry for help came before Him, into His very ears.

Psalm 38:3-8

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;
There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

Psalm 63:6

When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate and thoughtfully focus on You in the night watches,

Psalm 86:7

In the day of my trouble I will call upon You,
For You will answer me.

Psalm 88:1-3

O Lord, the God of my salvation,
I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You.

Psalm 102:1-2

Hear my prayer, O Lord,
And let my cry for help come to You!

Psalm 130:1-2

Out of the depths [of distress] I have cried to You, O Lord.

Proverbs 18:14

The spirit of a man sustains him in sickness,
But as for a broken spirit, who can bear it?

Isaiah 1:5-6

Why should you be stricken and punished again [since no change results from it]?
You [only] continue to rebel.
The whole head is sick
And the whole heart is faint and sick.

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord,
“A voice is heard in Ramah,
Lamentation (songs of mourning) and bitter weeping.
Rachel (Israel) is weeping for her children;
She refuses to be comforted for her children,
Because they are gone.”

Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness,
And Judah his wound,
Then Ephraim went to Assyria [instead of the Lord]
And sent to [Assyria’s] great King Jareb [for help].
But he cannot heal you
Nor will he cure you of your wound [received in judgment].

Hosea 6:1

“Come and let us return [in repentance] to the Lord,
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

Jonah 2:1-2

Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the stomach of the fish,

John 11:31

So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her, saw how quickly Mary got up and left, they followed her, assuming that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

2 Corinthians 12:7-8

Because of the surpassing greatness and extraordinary nature of the revelations [which I received from God], for this reason, to keep me from thinking of myself as important, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, to torment and harass me—to keep me from exalting myself!

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].