38 Bible Verses about Afflictions, Prayer During

Jehovah, bow down Your ear and hear. O Jehovah, open Your eyes and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib, who has sent him to taunt the living God.

And now, our God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful God, who keeps covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble that has come upon us, on our kings, on our rulers, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all Your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day, seem little before You.

Have mercy on me, O Jehovah; see my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,

Remember, O Jehovah, what has been to us; look down and see our shame.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses.

Remove Your stroke away from me; I am destroyed by the blow of Your hand.

Do not be grievously angry, O Jehovah, nor remember iniquity forever. Behold! Look, please; all of us are Your people. Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem is a ruin. The house of our holiness and our beauty, where our fathers praised You, has become a burning of fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste. read more.
Will You restrain Yourself over these things, O Jehovah? Will You be silent and sorely afflict us?

Heal me, O Jehovah, and I shall be healed, save me, and I shall be saved; for You are my praise.

And now, O, Jehovah our God, I beseech You, save us out of his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are Jehovah God, and You only.

O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no might against this great company which comes against us. Nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on You.

Keep me as the pupil, the daughter of the eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings, from the face of the wicked who strip me. Those against my soul, My foes, encircle me.

I have surely heard Ephraim mourning to himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not broken in; turn me, and I shall be turned. For You are Jehovah my God.

Turn us again, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease. Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations? Will You not give us life again, so that Your people may rejoice in You?

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which You have broken may rejoice.

But I am poor and sorrowful; let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Satisfy us early with Your mercy, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days of our affliction, the years in which we have seen evil.

Besides what I see, You teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more.

Teach me Your way, O Jehovah, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies.

Teach me to do Your will; for You are my God; Your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the fool.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

O do not remember against us our former sins; let Your tender mercies meet us quickly; for we are brought very low.

Teach me, and I will be silent; and cause me to understand where I have gone astray.

I will say to God, Do not condemn me; make me know why You contend with me.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make known my transgressions and my sin. Why do You hide Your face, and hold me for Your enemy?

Why do You stand afar off, O Jehovah? Will You hide in times of trouble?

Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; bow down Your ear to me; in the day I call, answer me quickly.

There are many who say, Who will show us any good? Jehovah, lift up the light of Your face on us.

I beseech You, let Your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to Your Word to Your servant.

Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am weak; O Jehovah, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

O Jehovah, I have heard Your report; I am afraid. O Jehovah, give new life to Your work in the midst of years; in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You, a pilgrim, as all my fathers were. Look away from me, and I will smile before I go away and be no more.

O Jehovah, for Your name's sake enliven me; for Your righteousness' sake, bring my soul out of trouble.

Cast me not away from Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

O Jehovah, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I know how frail I am.

Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing psalms.

And immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief.