Job 8:5
8:5 But if you will look to God,
and make your supplication to the Almighty,
Job 22:21
22:21 “Reconcile yourself with God,
and be at peace with him;
in this way your prosperity will be good.
Job 22:27
22:27 You will pray to him and he will hear you,
and you will fulfill your vows to him.
Genesis 32:7-12
32:7 Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.
32:8 “If Esau attacks one camp,”
he thought,
“then the other camp will be able to escape.”
32:9 Then Jacob prayed, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O Lord, you said to me, ‘Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.’
32:10 I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
32:11 Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.
32:12 But you said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”
Genesis 32:2
32:2 When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed,
“This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.
Genesis 33:12-13
33:12 Then Esau said, “Let’s be on our way! I will go in front of you.”
33:13 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.
Psalms 50:15
50:15 Pray to me when you are in trouble!
I will deliver you, and you will honor me!”
Psalms 77:1-2
Psalm 77
For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of Asaph.
77:1 I will cry out to God and call for help!
I will cry out to God and he will pay attention to me.
77:2 In my time of trouble I sought the Lord.
I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night.
I refused to be comforted.
Jonah 2:1-7
2:1 Jonah prayed to the
Lord his God from the stomach of the fish
2:2 and said,
“I called out to the Lord from my distress,
and he answered me;
from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help,
and you heard my prayer.
2:3 You threw me into the deep waters,
into the middle of the sea;
the ocean current engulfed me;
all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.
2:4 I thought I had been banished from your sight,
that I would never again see your holy temple!
2:5 Water engulfed me up to my neck;
the deep ocean surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.
2:6 I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains;
the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever;
but you brought me up from the Pit, O Lord, my God.
2:7 When my life was ebbing away, I called out to the Lord,
and my prayer came to your holy temple.