⁸ But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

¹⁵ Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

⁵ Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.

¹⁹ For this reason let those who by the purpose of God undergo punishment, keep on in well-doing and put their souls into the safe hands of their Maker.

²³ To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness:

¹ <To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.

² In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

²⁷ You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.

²¹ Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.

⁵ If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;

¹² And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

¹³ And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.

⁷ Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;

⁸ And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.

⁹ Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

¹⁰ I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.

¹¹ Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.

¹² And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

¹² And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.

¹ And the Lord made ready a great fish to take Jonah into its mouth; and Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

² Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,

³ In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

⁴ For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

⁵ And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

⁶ The waters were circling round me, even to the neck; the deep was about me; the sea-grass was twisted round my head.

⁷ I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.