Psalms 25:17
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
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Psalms 25:17
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
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Genesis 32:7
Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, along with the flocks, the herds, and the camels, into two companies.
1 Samuel 30:6
David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
Psalms 42:5
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
Psalms 116:10
I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”
Psalms 143:3
For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
Psalms 143:4
Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
2 Corinthians 1:8
For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
2 Corinthians 4:9
pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
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1 Samuel 6:5
Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.
Psalms 6:3
My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?
Psalms 38:1
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
Psalms 38:2
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
Psalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 38:4
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
Psalms 38:5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psalms 38:6
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Psalms 38:7
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms 38:8
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
Psalms 39:10
Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
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2 Kings 8:6
When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”
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Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
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Job 13:21
withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
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Numbers 23:21
He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
Psalms 4:1
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms 18:4
The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
Psalms 18:5
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
Psalms 40:2
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
Psalms 130:1
Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Jonah 2:2
He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
Jonah 2:3
For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
Jonah 2:4
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
Hebrews 5:7
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
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Psalms 17:1
Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
Psalms 18:16
He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
Psalms 31:8
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
Psalms 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Psalms 69:14
Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Psalms 69:15
Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
Psalms 71:20
You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
Psalms 88:7
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
Lamentations 3:55
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
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Psalms 37:39
But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
Psalms 37:40
Yahweh helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.
Psalms 91:15
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Psalms 91:16
I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”
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Psalms 119:32
I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.
Isaiah 60:5
Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.
2 Corinthians 6:11
Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.
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Job 40:4
“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Psalms 22:20
Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.
Psalms 25:1
To you, Yahweh, I lift up my soul.
Psalms 25:19
Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 142:4
Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
Psalms 142:5
I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
Psalms 142:6
Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.
Psalms 143:6
I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
Psalms 143:7
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalms 143:8
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Psalms 143:9
Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Luke 23:42
He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”
Luke 23:43
Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
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Proverbs 18:16
A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
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Proverbs 21:23
Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
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Psalms 42:8
Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalms 77:3
I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalms 77:4
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
Psalms 102:17
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
Psalms 141:8
For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. I take refuge in you. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
Isaiah 41:17
The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Lamentations 3:20
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
John 14:18
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
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Lamentations 1:9
Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”
Lamentations 1:11
All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, Yahweh, and see, for I have become despised.”
Lamentations 1:20
“Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.
Lamentations 2:13
What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?
Lamentations 2:20
“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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Lamentations 3:56
You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
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Habakkuk 3:17
For even though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food, the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls,
Habakkuk 3:18
yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
Habakkuk 3:19
Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
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Matthew 26:36
Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go there and pray.”
Matthew 26:37
He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
Matthew 26:38
Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me.”
Matthew 26:39
He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
Matthew 26:40
He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?
Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Matthew 26:42
Again, a second time he went away and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
Matthew 26:43
He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
Matthew 26:44
He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.
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1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
1 Corinthians 4:12
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
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Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
Revelation 7:14
I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering. They washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
Revelation 7:15
Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.
Revelation 7:16
They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;
Revelation 7:17
for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
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