Jonah 2:5
The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
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Jonah 2:5
The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.
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Genesis 32:7
Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;
Genesis 32:8
And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.
Genesis 32:9
Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:
Genesis 32:10
I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.
Genesis 32:11
Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.
Genesis 32:12
And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:13
And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
Job 5:8
But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:
Job 8:5
If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;
Job 22:21
Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.
Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.
Psalms 50:15
Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
Psalms 77:1
To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm. I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
Psalms 77:2
In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.
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1 Samuel 2:6
The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.
1 Samuel 20:3
But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.
1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.
Psalms 40:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.
Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.
Psalms 88:6
You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
Psalms 116:4
Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble.
Isaiah 43:1
But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.
Mark 14:34
And he said to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: be here a little time, and keep watch.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:
2 Corinthians 1:10
Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;
1 Thessalonians 1:10
Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.
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1 Kings 21:27
Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.
1 Kings 21:28
Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
1 Kings 21:29
Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.
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Job 16:16
My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
Job 17:7
My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
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Psalms 5:8
Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.
Psalms 79:1
A Psalm. Of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.
Psalms 138:2
I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.
Zechariah 2:12
And Judah will be the Lord's heritage in the holy land, and Jerusalem will again be his.
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Psalms 18:15
Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.
Psalms 104:6
Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;
Psalms 106:9
By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.
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Job 7:15
So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
Job 19:6
Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
Job 19:22
Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
Job 33:18
To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.
Job 33:19
Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;
Job 33:20
He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;
Job 33:21
His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...
Job 33:24
And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:
Psalms 30:3
O Lord, you have made my soul come again from the underworld: you have given me life and kept me from going down among the dead.
Isaiah 38:18
For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
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Psalms 39:9
I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
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Psalms 63:9
But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.
Psalms 69:14
Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.
Matthew 26:38
Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.
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Psalms 3:7
Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.
Psalms 107:27
They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.
Psalms 107:28
Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.
Psalms 107:29
He makes the storm into a calm, so that the waves are at peace.
Psalms 107:30
Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.
Matthew 8:24
And there came up a great storm in the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was sleeping.
Matthew 8:25
And they came to him, and, awaking him, said, Help, Lord; destruction is near.
Matthew 14:30
But when he saw the wind he was in fear and, starting to go down, he gave a cry, saying, Help, Lord.
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Psalms 18:17
He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.
Psalms 142:6
Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.
Psalms 142:7
Take my soul out of prison, so that I may give praise to your name: the upright will give praise because of me; for you have given me a full reward.
Psalms 143:3
The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
Isaiah 24:22
And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.
Isaiah 26:19
Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.
Zechariah 9:11
And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.
Luke 8:31
And they made a request to him that he would not give them an order to go away into the deep.
Acts 2:24
But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.
Acts 2:27
For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.
Acts 2:28
You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face.
Acts 2:29
My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.
Acts 2:30
But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,
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Isaiah 49:4
And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.
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Jeremiah 31:22
How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.
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Psalms 18:3
I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.
Isaiah 57:3
But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.
Daniel 9:3
And turning my face to the Lord God, I gave myself up to prayer, requesting his grace, going without food, in haircloth and dust.
Luke 15:16
And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.
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Psalms 22:12
A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.
Psalms 22:13
I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.
Psalms 22:16
Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
Isaiah 28:17
And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.
Matthew 26:47
And while he was still talking, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a band armed with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and those in authority over the people.
Matthew 26:55
In that hour Jesus said to the people, Have you come out as against a thief with swords and sticks to take me? I was teaching every day in the Temple and you took me not.
Matthew 27:24
So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.
Matthew 27:25
And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.
Matthew 27:39
And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying,
Matthew 27:40
You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Matthew 27:41
In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,
Matthew 27:42
A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him.
Matthew 27:43
He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.
Matthew 27:44
And the thieves who were on the crosses said evil words to him.
Acts 21:30
And all the town was moved, and the people came running together and put their hands on Paul, pulling him out of the Temple: and then the doors were shut.
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Psalms 31:22
And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.
Lamentations 3:8
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
Lamentations 3:18
And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.
Lamentations 3:58
O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.
Mark 10:38
But Jesus said to them, You have no knowledge of what you are saying. Are you able to take of my cup? or to undergo the baptism which I am to undergo?
Luke 11:10
For to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire; and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
Luke 18:1
And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
James 4:3
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.
James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
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John 16:31
Jesus made answer, Have you faith now?
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John 16:32
See, a time is coming, yes, it is now here, when you will go away in all directions, every man to his house, and I will be by myself: but I am not by myself, because the Father is with me.
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2 Corinthians 12:7
And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
2 Corinthians 12:8
And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.
2 Corinthians 12:10
So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.
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