10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

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(A)You ask and do not receive, (B)because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

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54 (A)The waters flowed over my head;
(B)I said, “I am cut off!”

55 (C)I called on Your name, O Lord,
From the lowest (D)pit.
56 (E)You have heard my voice:
“Do not hide Your ear
From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
57 You (F)drew near on the day I called on You,
And said, (G)“Do not fear!”

58 O Lord, You have (H)pleaded the case for my soul;
(I)You have redeemed my life.

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18 (A)And I said, “My strength and my hope
Have perished from the Lord.”

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22 For I said in my haste,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried out to You.

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11 Indeed (A)we count them blessed who (B)endure. You have heard of (C)the perseverance of Job and seen (D)the end intended by the Lord—that (E)the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

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The Parable of the Persistent Widow

18 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men (A)always ought to pray and not lose heart,

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And he said:

“I (A)cried out to the Lord because of my affliction,
(B)And He answered me.

“Out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
And You heard my voice.
(C)For You cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the floods surrounded me;
(D)All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.
(E)Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight;
Yet I will look again (F)toward Your holy temple.’
The (G)waters surrounded me, even to my soul;
The deep closed around me;
Weeds were wrapped around my head.
I went down to the [a]moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my (H)life from the pit,
O Lord, my God.

“When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord;
(I)And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.

“Those who regard (J)worthless idols
Forsake their own [b]Mercy.

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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 2:6 foundations or bases
  2. Jonah 2:8 Or Lovingkindness

Even (A)when I cry and shout,
He shuts out my prayer.

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