Psalms 18:6

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

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

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

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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,

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.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

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.

Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

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

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

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

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

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

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

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.

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

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.

“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

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

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

You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

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

Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

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.

Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened.

Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.

and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

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

“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

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.

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

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.

Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

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

He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.