A. The Lord promises to deliver us from our suffering:

PSA 30:5. For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

PSA 34:19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

PSA 103:9. He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.

PSA 103:10. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

PSA 103:11. For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

PSA 103:12. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

PSA 103:13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

PSA 103:14. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

LAM 3:31. For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

LAM 3:32. But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

ISA 54:7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

ISA 54:8. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.

EXO 3:7. And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

EXO 3:9. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

EXO 3:10. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

DEU 26:6. And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

DEU 26:7. And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

DEU 26:8. And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

PSA 66:11. Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

PSA 66:12. Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

PSA 94:12. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

PSA 94:13. That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

PSA 94:14. For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

PSA 107:11. Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

PSA 107:12. Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

PSA 107:13. Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

PSA 107:14. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

PSA 118:17. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

PSA 118:18. The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

B. Pray for deliverance:

PSA 34:6. This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

PSA 34:17. The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

PSA 50:15. And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

EZR 9:5. And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,

EZR 9:6. And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

EZR 9:7. Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

EZR 9:8. And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

EZR 9:9. For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

EZR 9:10. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

EZR 9:11. Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

EZR 9:12. Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

EZR 9:13. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;

EZR 9:14. Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?

EZR 9:15. O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

ISA 38:1. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

ISA 38:2. Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,

ISA 38:3. And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

C. God's conditions:

2CH 6:27. Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

2CH 6:28. If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

2CH 6:29. Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

2CH 6:30. Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

2CH 7:13. If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

2CH 7:14. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

JOB 33:27. He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

JOB 33:28. He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

JOB 33:29. Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

JOB 36:8. And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

JOB 36:9. Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

JOB 36:10. He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

JOB 36:11. If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

JON 2:1. Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

JON 2:2. And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

JON 2:3. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

JON 2:4. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

JON 2:5. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

JON 2:6. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

JON 2:7. When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

JON 2:8. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

JON 2:9. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.