18. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Ps. xc. 15. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

Ps. cii. 1. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.

2. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

4. My heart is smitten, and whithered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

8. Mine enemies reproach me all the day;...

24. I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days:...

Ps. cix. 22. For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23. I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:... 24. My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

25. I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

26. Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

27. That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.

Ps. cxix. 22. Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

28. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

39. Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

76. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. 82. Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

94. I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

107. I am afflicted very much :...

117. Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe :... 123. Mine eyes fail for thy salvation...

145. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord: 147. I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried I hope in thy word.

153. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me. 169. Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord: 173. Let thine hand help me.

P8. cxxx. 1. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.

2. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

5. I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

Ps. cxlii. 1. I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication.

2. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

8. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path.

6. Attend unto my cry for I am brought very low:... 7. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.

Ps. cxliii. 4. Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

7. Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth : hide not thy face from me...

10. Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God. Ps. cxliv. 7. Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters.

...

Isa. xxxviii. 14. Mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

15. ... I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

Isa. Ixiv. 9. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

12. Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very

sore ?

Jer. x. 21. O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. La. i. 9. O Lord, behold my affliction.

20. Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress...mine heart is turned within me ;...

22. ...For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. La. iii. 54. Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

55. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

56. Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

59. O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

La. v. 1. Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

15. The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

17. For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

20. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

21. Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

Hab. iii. 2. O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

COMFORT AND SUPPORT IN

AFFLICTION.

Gen. xvi. 11.... The Lord hath heard thy affliction. Gen. xxi. 17....Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Ex. iii. 7. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry...I know their sorrows.

Ex. iv. 81....And when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

Deu. xxxiii. 27. The eternal God is thy refuge.

2 Sa. xvi. 12. It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good...

2 Sa. xxii. 19. They prevented me in the day of my calamity but the Lord was my stay.

:

28. And the afflicted people thou wilt save.

Job v. 17. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: