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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Genesis 32:11

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Genesis 43:14

May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Exodus 17:4

Then Moses cried out to the LORD, “What should I do with these people? A little more and they will stone me!”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Numbers 20:16

and when we cried out to the LORD, He heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 1 Samuel 1:10, 11

In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears. / And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then I will dedicate him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall ever come over his head.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 2 Samuel 12:22

David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 2 Samuel 15:31

Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 2 Samuel 22:7

In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help reached His ears.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 1 Kings 8:36–50

then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance. / When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come, / then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 2 Kings 19:16, 19

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God. / And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 1 Chronicles 5:20

And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 2 Chronicles 6:24–39

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple, / then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers. / When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 2 Chronicles 14:11

Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 2 Chronicles 20:4–13

So the people of Judah gathered to seek the LORD, and indeed, they came from all the cities of Judah to seek Him. / Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the LORD in front of the new courtyard / and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In 2 Chronicles 33:12, 13

And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers. / And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Nehemiah 4:4, 5, 9

Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity. / Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders. / So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Nehemiah 6:9, 14

For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands. / O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Nehemiah 9:32

So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Job 10:2, 9, 15

I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me. / Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust? / If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Job 13:21

Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Job 16:20

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 3:1, 2, 7

A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me! / Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah / Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 4:1

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 5:8

Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight Your way before me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 6:1–7

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments, according to Sheminith. A Psalm of David. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. / Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony. / My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 7:1, 2, 6, 7

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite. O LORD my God, I take refuge in You; save me and deliver me from all my pursuers, / or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me. / Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 9:13, 14

Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death, / that I may declare all Your praises—that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 10:1

Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 13:1–4

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? / How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me? / Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 16:1

A Miktam of David. Preserve me, O God, for in You I take refuge.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 17:1, 2, 6–9, 13, 14

A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer—it comes from lips free of deceit. / May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right. / I call on You, O God, for You will answer me. Incline Your ear to me; hear my words.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 20:1, 2

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. / May He send you help from the sanctuary and sustain you from Zion.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 22:1–21

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning? / I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest. / Yet You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 25:2, 16–19, 22

in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me. / Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted. / Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 27:11, 12

Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors. / Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 28:1

Of David. To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 30:9, 10

“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness? / Hear me, O LORD, and have mercy; O LORD, be my helper.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 31:1–4, 14–18

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness. / Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance. / For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 35:1–3, 17, 19, 22, 23, 25

Of David. Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me. / Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid. / Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul: “I am your salvation.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 38:1–22

A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath. / For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me. / There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 39:10, 12, 13

Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand. / Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers. / Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 40:13, 17

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me. / But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 42:9

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 43:1–5

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men. / For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression? / Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 44:4, 23–26

You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob. / Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever. / Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 50:15

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 54:1–3

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. When the Ziphites went to Saul and said, “Is David not hiding among us?” Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your might! / Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth. / For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 55:1–17

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea. / Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught / at the voice of the enemy, at the pressure of the wicked. For they release disaster upon me and revile me in their anger.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 56:1–13

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “A Dove on Distant Oaks.” A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack. / My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me. / When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 57:1, 2

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed. / I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 59:1–17

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch David’s house in order to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise against me. / Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed. / See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 60:1–3, 11

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us! / You have shaken the land and torn it open. Heal its fractures, for it is quaking. / You have shown Your people hardship; we are staggered from the wine You made us drink.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 61:1, 2

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. Of David. Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer. / From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 64:1, 2

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy. / Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 69:1–36

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck. / I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me. / I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 70:1, 2

For the choirmaster. Of David. To bring remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Hurry, O LORD, to help me! / May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 71:1, 2, 4, 9, 12

In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. / In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me. / Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and ruthless.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 74:1, 3, 10, 11, 19, 21–23

A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture? / Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed. / How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 77:1, 2, 7–9

For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me. / In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted. / “Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 79:1, 5, 8, 9, 11

A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble. / How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire? / Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 80:1, 3–5, 14

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth / Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved. / You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 83:1–18

A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God. / See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads. / With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 85:5–7

Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations? / Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You? / Show us Your loving devotion, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 86:1–17

A prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. / Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You. / Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 88:9–14

My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You. / Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah / Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 89:39–51

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust. / You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble. / All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 90:15

Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 94:1–23

O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth. / Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud. / How long will the wicked, O LORD, how long will the wicked exult?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 102:2, 24

Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call. / I say: “O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 106:47

Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 108:6, 12

Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered. / Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 109:1–31

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent. / For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues. / They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 116:4

Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, deliver my soul!”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 119:22, 28, 39, 41, 42, 76, 77, 82, 84, 107, 121–123, 134, 145–149, 153, 1

Remove my scorn and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies. / My soul melts with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word. / Turn away the disgrace I dread, for Your judgments are good.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 120:2

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 123:3, 4

Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt. / We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 126:4

Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 130:1–8

A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD! / O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy. / If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 140:1–13

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Rescue me, O LORD, from evil men. Protect me from men of violence, / who devise evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long. / They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 141:1–10

A Psalm of David. I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You. / May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering. / Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 142:1, 2, 5–7

A Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A prayer. I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift my voice to the LORD for mercy. / I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him. / I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Psalm 143:1–12

A Psalm of David. O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me. / Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You. / For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Isaiah 33:2

O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Isaiah 38:2, 3, 14–19

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, / saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. / I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Isaiah 51:9

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Isaiah 63:15–17

Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained. / Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name. / Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Isaiah 64:1

If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Jeremiah 10:24

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Jeremiah 14:8, 9, 19–21

O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night? / Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us! / Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Jeremiah 15:15

You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Jeremiah 16:19

O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Jeremiah 17:17, 18

Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster. / Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terrified. Bring upon them the day of disaster and shatter them with double destruction.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Jeremiah 18:19

Attend to me, O LORD. Hear what my accusers are saying!

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Jeremiah 27:8

As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Jeremiah 32:16–25

After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD: / “Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You! / You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Lamentations 1:9–11, 20

Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed! / The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly. / All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Lamentations 2:18, 19

The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest. / Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Lamentations 5:1, 16, 17, 19–22

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace! / The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned! / Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Daniel 6:10

Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Joel 1:19

To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.

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