Lamentations 3:56

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

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.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.

So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

Sing to Yahweh! Praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evildoers.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.

God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.

He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for I pray to you.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

“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.”

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.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.

Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.

that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”

Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.

Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

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.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

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!’

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.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.