Job 30:17

In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

God brings him out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox. He shall consume the nations his adversaries, shall break their bones in pieces, and pierce them with his arrows.

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed Yahweh’s voice, behold, as soon as you have departed from me, a lion will kill you.” As soon as he had departed from him, a lion found him and killed him.

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

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.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

Yahweh God of Armies, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

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

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.