Psalms 31:22

22I had said in my aalarm,
Or  in my haste

“I am ccut off from dyour sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
when I cried to you for help.

Lamentations 3:8

8though eI call and cry for help,
he shuts out my prayer;

Lamentations 3:18

18 fso I say, “My endurance has perished;
so has my hope from the Lord.”

Lamentations 3:54-58

54 gwater closed over my head;
I said, h‘I am lost.’
55 i“I called on your name, O Lord,
from the depths of the pit;
56 jyou heard my plea, ‘Do not close
your ear to my cry for help!’
57 kYou came near when I called on you;
you said, l‘Do not fear!’
58 “You have mtaken up my cause, nO Lord;
you have oredeemed my life.

Jonah 2:2-8

2saying,

p“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
and he answered me;
qout of the belly of Sheol I cried,
rand you heard my voice.
3 sFor you cast me into the deep,
into the heart of the seas,
and the flood surrounded me;
tall your waves and your billows
passed over me.
4 uThen I said, ‘I am driven away
from your sight;
vyet I shall again look
upon your holy temple.’
5 wThe waters closed in over me xto take my life;
the deep surrounded me;
weeds were wrapped about my head
6at the roots of the mountains.
I went down to the land
whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord my God.
7When my life was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
yand my prayer came to you,
into your holy temple.
8 zThose who pay regard to vain idols
aaforsake their hope of steadfast love.

Luke 18:1

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

1And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought abalways to pray and not aclose heart.

James 4:3

3You ask and do not receive, because you ask adwrongly, to spend it on your passions.

James 5:11

11Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of aethe steadfastness of Job, and you have seen afthe purpose of the Lord, how agthe Lord is compassionate and merciful.

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