prayer

2 Chronicles 20:5-13
Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the LORD, in front of the new courtyard . . .

Psalm 50:15
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me."

Psalm 91:15
When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver and honor him.

Isaiah 37:4, 15-21
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives." . . .

Joel 2:17
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the porch and the altar, saying, "Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

Amos 7:1-6
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king's harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up. . . .

the plague

2 Chronicles 6:29
may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make--each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this house--

Job 7:11
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Psalm 32:3, 4
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long. . . .

Psalm 42:6, 9, 11
O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon--from Mount Mizar. . . .

Psalm 73:21, 22
When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within, . . .

Psalm 142:3-5
Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me. . . .

Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.

Romans 7:24
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Philippians 4:6
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

spread forth

1 Kings 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,

Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.