Mark 4:38
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38 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
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1 Peter 5:7
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7 Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.(A)
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Hebrews 4:15
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15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested[a] as we are, yet without sin.(A)
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- 4.15 Or tempted
Isaiah 54:6-8
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6 For the Lord has called you
like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
like the wife of a man’s youth when she is cast off,
says your God.(A)
7 For a brief moment I abandoned you,
but with great compassion I will gather you.(B)
8 In overflowing wrath for a moment
I hid my face from you,
but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,
says the Lord, your Redeemer.(C)
Luke 8:24
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24 They went to him and woke him up, shouting, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And waking up, he rebuked the wind and the raging waves; they ceased, and there was a calm.(A)
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Matthew 8:25
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25 And they went and woke him up, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
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Isaiah 51:9-10
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9 Awake, awake, put on strength,
O arm of the Lord!
Awake, as in days of old,
the generations of long ago!
Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the dragon?(A)
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a way
for the redeemed to cross over?(B)
Isaiah 40:27-28
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27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
and assert, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my right is disregarded by my God”?(A)
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.(B)
Isaiah 64:12
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12 After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord?
Will you keep silent and punish us so severely?(A)
Isaiah 49:14-16
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14 But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.”(A)
15 Can a woman forget her nursing child
or show no compassion for the child of her womb?
Even these might forget,
yet I will not forget you.(B)
16 See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me.(C)
Psalm 77:7-10
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7 “Will the Lord spurn forever
and never again be favorable?(A)
8 Has his steadfast love ceased forever?
Are his promises at an end for all time?(B)
9 Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah(C)
10 And I say, “It is my grief
that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”(D)
Psalm 10:1-2
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Psalm 10
Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
1 [a]Why, O Lord, do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2 In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor—
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.(A)
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- 10.1 Psalms 9–10 were originally one psalm, as in the Greek and Latin traditions. In Hebrew, Psalms 9–10 formed an acrostic.
Job 8:5-6
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5 If you will seek God
and make supplication to the Almighty,[a](A)
6 if you are pure and upright,
surely then he will rouse himself for you
and restore to you your rightful place.(B)
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- 8.5 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
1 Kings 18:27-29
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27 At noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud! Surely he is a god; either he is meditating, or he has wandered away, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.” 28 Then they cried aloud, and, as was their custom, they cut themselves with swords and lances until the blood gushed out over them.(A) 29 As midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice, no answer, and no response.(B)
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Hebrews 2:17
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17 Therefore he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the people.(A)
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John 4:6
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6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
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Isaiah 63:15
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A Prayer of Penitence
15 Look down from heaven and see,
from your holy and glorious habitation.
Where are your zeal and your might?
Your great pity and your compassion are withheld from me.(A)
Psalm 44:23-24
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23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not cast us off forever!(A)
24 Why do you hide your face?
Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?(B)
Psalm 22:1-2
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Psalm 22
Plea for Deliverance from Suffering and Hostility
To the leader: according to The Deer of the Dawn. A Psalm of David.
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?(A)
2 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer;
and by night but find no rest.(B)
Lamentations 3:8
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8 though I call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;(A)
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