Matthew 8:25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 And they went and woke him up, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
Read full chapter
Jonah 1:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 The captain came and said to him, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up; call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.”(A)
Read full chapter
Luke 8:24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Read full chapter
Mark 4:38-39
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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?” 39 And waking up, he rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Be silent! Be still!” Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm.
Read full chapter
Isaiah 51:9-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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)
Psalm 44:22-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 Because of you we are being killed all day long
and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.(A)
23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not cast us off forever!(B)
2 Chronicles 20:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 O our God, will you not execute judgment upon them? For we are powerless against this great multitude that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”(A)
Read full chapter
2 Chronicles 14:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 Asa cried to the Lord his God, “O Lord, there is no difference for you between helping the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let no mortal prevail against you.”(A)
Read full chapter
Psalm 10:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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?
Footnotes
- 10.1 Psalms 9–10 were originally one psalm, as in the Greek and Latin traditions. In Hebrew, Psalms 9–10 formed an acrostic.
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.