TOPICAL STUDY

PRAYER OF AFFLICTION

GEN 32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand

of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the

children.

GEN 43:14 And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away

your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am

bereaved.

EXO 17:4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this

people? they be almost ready to stone me.

NUM 20:16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an

angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a

city in the uttermost of thy border:

2SA 12:22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I

said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

2SA 15:31 And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with

Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel

into foolishness.

2SA 22:7 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did

hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

1KI 8:35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned

against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn

from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

2KI 19:16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see:

and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living

God.

2KI 19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of

his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD

God, even thou only.

1CH 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered

into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the

battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.

2CH 14:11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing

with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us,

O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this

multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let no man prevail against thee.

2CH 20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against

this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our

eyes are upon thee.

2CH 33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and

humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

NEH 4:4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon

their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

NEH 9:32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God,

who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee,

that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on

our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the

kings of Assyria unto this day.

JOB 10:2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou

contendest with me.

JOB 13:21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me

afraid.

PSA 3:1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise

up against me.

PSA 4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me

when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

PSA 5:8 Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy

way straight before my face.

PSA 6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot

displeasure.

PSA 7:1 O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that

persecute me, and deliver me:

PSA 9:13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them

that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

PSA 10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times

of trouble?

PSA 13:1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou

hide thy face from me?

PSA 16:1 Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

PSA 17:1 Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer,

that goeth not out of feigned lips.

PSA 20:1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob

defend thee;

PSA 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from

helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

PSA 25:1 Unto thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

PSA 27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of

mine enemies.

PSA 28:1 Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if

thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

PSA 30:10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

PSA 31:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver

me in thy righteousness.

PSA 35:1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against

them that fight against me.

PSA 38:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot

displeasure.

PSA 39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine

hand.

PSA 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

PSA 42:9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I

mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

PSA 43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O

deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

PSA 44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

PSA 50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou

shalt glorify me.

PSA 54:1 Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

PSA 55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my

supplication.

PSA 56:1 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting

daily oppresseth me.

PSA 57:1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth

in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these

calamities be overpast.

PSA 59:1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise

up against me.

PSA 60:1 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been

displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

PSA 61:1 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

PSA 64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the

enemy.

PSA 69:1 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

PSA 70:1 Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

PSA 71:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

PSA 74:1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke

against the sheep of thy pasture?

PSA 77:1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he

gave ear unto me.

PSA 79:1 O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple

have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

PSA 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;

thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

PSA 83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O

God.

PSA 85:1 LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back

the captivity of Jacob.

PSA 86:1 Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

PSA 88:9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily

upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

PSA 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my

bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

PSA 90:15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,

and the years wherein we have seen evil.

PSA 94:1 O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance

belongeth, shew thyself.

PSA 102:2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline

thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

PSA 106:47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to

give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

ISA 3:2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the

prudent, and the ancient,

ISA 33:2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their

arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

ISA 64:1 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down,

that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

JER 10:24 O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou

bring me to nothing.

JER 15:15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my

persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I

have suffered rebuke.

JER 16:19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of

affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and

shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein

there is no profit.

JER 18:19 Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that

contend with me.

LAM 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our

reproach.

DAN 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his

house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled

upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as

he did aforetime.

JOE 1:19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of

the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

JON 1:14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD,

we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us

innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.

JON 2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

MAT 8:25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us:

we perish.

MAT 14:30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to

sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.

MAT 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried

unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is

grievously vexed with a devil.

MAT 26:39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed,

saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless

not as I will, but as thou wilt.

MAT 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli,

Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken

me?

LUK 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to

pray, and not to faint;

JOH 11:3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom

thou lovest is sick.

ACT 4:29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants,

that with all boldness they may speak thy word,

ACT 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus,

receive my spirit.

2CO 12:8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from

me.

JAM 5:13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing

psalms.

JAM 5:14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and

let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

JAM 5:15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise

him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

JAM 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye

may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.