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Philipper 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. (niv)
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1 Könige 8 22
Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven (niv)
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Psalm 73:21-22
When my heart was grieved and my spirit embittered,I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before you. (niv)
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Amos 7:1-6
This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up.When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out,“ Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”So the Lord relented.“ This will not happen,” the Lord said.This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.Then I cried out,“ Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”So the Lord relented.“ This will not happen either,” the Sovereign Lord said. (niv)
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Psalm 142:3-5
When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who watch over my way. In the path where I walk people have hidden a snare for me.Look and see, there is no one at my right hand; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.I cry to you, Lord; I say,“ You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.” (niv)
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Jesaja 37:4
It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.” (niv)
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Psalm 42:6
My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon— from Mount Mizar. (niv)
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Psalm 42:9
I say to God my Rock,“ Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?” (niv)
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Jesaja 37:15-21
And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord:“ Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.Give ear, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.“ It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands.They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.Now, Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Lord, are the only God.”Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah:“ This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, (niv)
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2 Chronik 20 5-2 Chronik 20 13
Then Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem at the temple of the Lord in the front of the new courtyardand said:“ Lord, the God of our ancestors, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you.Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?They have lived in it and have built in it a sanctuary for your Name, saying,‘ If calamity comes upon us, whether the sword of judgment, or plague or famine, we will stand in your presence before this temple that bears your Name and will cry out to you in our distress, and you will hear us and save us.’“ But now here are men from Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, whose territory you would not allow Israel to invade when they came from Egypt; so they turned away from them and did not destroy them.See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession you gave us as an inheritance.Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army that is attacking us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”All the men of Judah, with their wives and children and little ones, stood there before the Lord. (niv)
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Sprüche 14:10
Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy. (niv)
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Psalm 91:15
He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. (niv)
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Psalm 50:15
and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” (niv)
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Joel 2:17
Let the priests, who minister before the Lord, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say,“ Spare your people, Lord. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples,‘ Where is their God?’” (niv)
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Psalm 42:11
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (niv)
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Jesaja 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! (niv)
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2 Chronik 6 29
and when a prayer or plea is made by anyone among your people Israel— being aware of their afflictions and pains, and spreading out their hands toward this temple— (niv)
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Psalm 32:3-4
When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer. (niv)
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Hiob 7:11
“ Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (niv)
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Römer 7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? (niv)