Verse 2

My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.

Referenced Verses

  • Luke 18:7 : 7 Won’t God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?
  • Ps 88:1 : 1 A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; a well-written song by Heman the Ezrachite. O LORD God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.
  • Ps 42:3 : 3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”
  • Ps 55:16-17 : 16 As for me, I will call out to God, and the LORD will deliver me. 17 During the evening, morning, and noontime I will lament and moan, and he will hear me.
  • Ps 80:4 : 4 O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
  • Lam 3:44 : 44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
  • Matt 26:44 : 44 So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same thing once more.
  • Luke 6:12 : 12 Choosing the Twelve Apostles Now it was during this time that Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and he spent all night in prayer to God.
  • Luke 22:41-46 : 41 He went away from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed, 42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”[ 43 Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him. 44 And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.] 45 When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted from grief. 46 So he said to them,“Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation!”
  • 1 Thess 3:10 : 10 We pray earnestly night and day to see you in person and make up what may be lacking in your faith.
  • 2 Tim 1:3 : 3 Thanksgiving and Charge to Timothy I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.