Psalms 38:9

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

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

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

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

For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

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

Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

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

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

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

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

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

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

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

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

But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had been done to her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

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.”

God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint;’

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

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

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

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

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

“ ‘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.

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.

When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

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.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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

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.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.

Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.

Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

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

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

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.

I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

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

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”

“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.