Psalms 31:22

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.

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

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 said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

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

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.”

“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.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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.

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

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

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.

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

He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

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

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

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

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

Moses said before Yahweh, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh listen to me?”

The Gazites were told, “Samson is here!” They surrounded him and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, “Wait until morning light; then we will kill him.”

Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

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

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

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

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

The dead don’t praise Yah, neither any who go down into silence;

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

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

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.

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.”

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

David swore moreover, and said, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, ‘Don’t let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved;’ but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”

He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

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

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.

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

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

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

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

“You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: ‘You say this, “Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them. How then can we live?” ’

I will multiply men on you, all the house of Israel, even all of it. The cities will be inhabited, and the waste places will be built.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Now I will reverse the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel. I will be jealous for my holy name.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

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

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

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.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

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

Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain; and David hurried to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take 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.”

“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

Your heart will meditate on the terror. Where is he who counted? Where is he who weighed? Where is he who counted the towers?

I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

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

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

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

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,