Jonah's Prayer

Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish,

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53 (A)they flung me alive into the pit
    (B)and cast stones on me;
54 (C)water closed over my head;
    I said, (D)‘I am lost.’

55 (E)“I called on your name, O Lord,
    from the depths of the pit;
56 (F)you heard my plea, ‘Do not close
    your ear to my cry for help!’

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My Soul Waits for the Lord

A Song of (A)Ascents.

130 Out of (B)the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
    O Lord, hear my voice!
(C)Let your ears be attentive
    to (D)the voice of my pleas for mercy!

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15 When he (A)calls to me, I will answer him;
    I will be with him in trouble;
    I will rescue him and (B)honor him.

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15 (A)Though he slay me, I will (B)hope in him;[a]
    yet I will (C)argue my ways to his face.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 13:15 Or Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope

16 O Lord, (A)in distress they sought you;
    they poured out a whispered prayer
    when your discipline was upon them.

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15 and (A)call upon me in the day of trouble;
    I will (B)deliver you, and you shall (C)glorify me.”

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The Prayer of Faith

13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him (A)sing praise.

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11 (A)Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and (B)bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God (C)and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him, and (D)God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. (E)Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

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24 Having received this order, he put them into the inner (A)prison and fastened their feet in (B)the stocks.

The Philippian Jailer Converted

25 (C)About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

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15 (A)I will return again to my place,
    until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
    and (B)in their distress earnestly seek me.

Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant

“Come, let us (C)return to the Lord;
    for (D)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
    he has struck us down, and (E)he will bind us up.
After two days (F)he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
(G)Let us know; (H)let us press on to know the Lord;
    (I)his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us (J)as the showers,
    (K)as the spring rains that water the earth.”

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