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Philippians 4:6
Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
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1 Kings 8 22
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire congregation of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.
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Psalms 73:21-22
When I became embittered and my innermost being was wounded,I was stupid and didn’t understand; I was an unthinking animal toward You.
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Amos 7:1-6
The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout— after the cutting of the king’s hay.When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said,“ Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”The Lord relented concerning this.“ It will not happen,” He said.The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.Then I said,“ Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”The Lord relented concerning this.“ This will not happen either,” said the Lord God.
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Psalms 142:3-5
Although my spirit is weak within me, You know my way. Along this path I travel they have hidden a trap for me.Look to the right and see: no one stands up for me; there is no refuge for me; no one cares about me.I cry to You, Lord; I say,“ You are my shelter, my portion in the land of the living.”
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Isaiah 37:4
Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke him for the words that Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.’”
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Psalms 42:6
I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
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Psalms 42:9
I will say to God, my rock,“ Why have You forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
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Isaiah 37:15-21
Then Hezekiah prayed to the Lord:Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are God— You alone— of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.Listen closely, Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, Lord, and see. Hear all the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands.They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made by human hands— wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.Now, Lord our God, save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord— You alone.Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah:“ The Lord, the God of Israel, says:‘ Because you prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,
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2 Chronicles 20 5-2 Chronicles 20 13
Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the Lord’s temple before the new courtyard.He said: Yahweh, the God of our ancestors, 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.Are You not our God who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and who gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?They have lived in the land and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name and have said,“ If disaster comes on us— sword or judgment, pestilence or famine— we will stand before this temple and before You, for Your name is in this temple. We will cry out to You because of our distress, and You will hear and deliver.”Now here are the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir. You did not let Israel invade them when Israel came out of the land of Egypt, but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.Look how they repay us by coming to drive us out of Your possession that You gave us as an inheritance.Our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this vast number that comes to fight against us. We do not know what to do, but we look to You.All Judah was standing before the Lord with their infants, their wives, and their children.
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Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no outsider shares in its joy.
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Psalms 91:15
When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will rescue him and give him honor.
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Psalms 50:15
Call on Me in a day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will honor Me.”
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Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say:“ Have pity on Your people, Lord, and do not make Your inheritance a disgrace, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples,‘ Where is their God?’”
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Psalms 42:11
Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God.
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Isaiah 1:15
When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
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2 Chronicles 6 29
whatever prayer or petition anyone from your people Israel might have— each man knowing his own affliction and suffering, and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
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Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.For day and night Your hand was heavy on me; my strength was drained as in the summer’s heat. Selah
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Job 7:11
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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Romans 7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?