Psalms 142:2

Psalms 142:2
I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

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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.

Genesis 32:8
He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”

Genesis 32:9
Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’

Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

Genesis 32:11
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

Genesis 32:12
You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’ ”

Job 5:8
“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

Psalms 22:24
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Psalms 65:2
You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.

Psalms 120:1
In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

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.

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Genesis 32:24
Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

Genesis 32:25
When he saw that he didn’t prevail against him, the man touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained as he wrestled.

Genesis 32:26
The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”

Genesis 32:27
He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob”.

Genesis 32:28
He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Hosea 12:4
Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us—

Hosea 12:5
even Yahweh, the God of Armies. Yahweh is his name of renown!

Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

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Leviticus 4:7
The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

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2 Chronicles 9:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

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Job 9:27
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’

Job 21:4
As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

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Psalms 3:4
I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

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 4:2
You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood? Selah.

Psalms 34:4
I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalms 62:5
My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

Psalms 64:1
Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Psalms 77:1
My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

Psalms 107:6
Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 5:7
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

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 42:11
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

Psalms 43:5
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

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Psalms 17:10
They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Psalms 27:7
Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

Psalms 54:2
Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

Psalms 57:5
Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!

Psalms 66:17
I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.

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Job 16:20
My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

Psalms 55:16
As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me.

Psalms 55:17
Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Psalms 109:4
In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

Luke 6:11
But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.

Luke 6:12
In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

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Psalms 69:1
Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

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Psalms 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

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Psalms 107:10
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

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1 Samuel 22:1
David therefore departed from there and escaped to Adullam’s cave. When his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.

1 Samuel 23:15
David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the woods.

1 Samuel 23:19
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

1 Samuel 23:23
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself; and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

1 Samuel 24:1
When Saul had returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.”

1 Samuel 24:2
Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men on the rocks of the wild goats.

1 Samuel 24:3
He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of the cave.

1 Samuel 26:1
The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?”

1 Kings 17:3
“Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

1 Kings 18:4
for when Jezebel cut off Yahweh’s prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets, and hid them fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

1 Kings 18:13
Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

1 Kings 19:9
He came to a cave there, and camped there; and behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

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.

Hebrews 11:38
of whom the world was not worthy—wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

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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 143:5
I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

Psalms 143:6
I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

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1 Samuel 7:6
They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

2 Chronicles 6:29
whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who will each know his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread out his hands toward this house,

Job 3:24
For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

Psalms 32:2
Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalms 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

Psalms 32:5
I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Psalms 32:6
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

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Isaiah 57:6
Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?

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1 Samuel 1:10
She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

Psalms 61:1
Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

Psalms 86:4
Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

Psalms 119:10
With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Psalms 119:145
I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

Jeremiah 29:13
You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

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Psalms 12:5
“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Lamentations 3:18
I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

Lamentations 3:20
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

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Matthew 12:34
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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Hebrews 4:16
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

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Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,

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