Psalms 142:2
I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.
BSB
ASV
I pour out my complaint before him; I show before him my trouble.
KJV
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
I pour out my prayer in his sight. He said it more expressively: I pour out my whole heart in the sight of the Lord — just as someone might confess his wound to a doctor, and tell him all the sufferings he has, so that the doctor may thus apply the cure to him. I declare my tribulation before him. This is the tribulation which the Apostle enumerates, which, when counted with the rest, produces hope, and hope does not confound.
When the danger was over he was not ashamed to own (as great spirits sometimes are) the fright he had been in and the application he had made to God. Let no men of the first rank think it any diminution or disparagement to them, when they are in affliction, to cry to God, and to cry like children to their parents when any thing frightens them.
I poured out my complaint before him. His inward meditation filled his soul: the bitter water rose up to the brim; what was to be done? He must pour out the wormwood and the gall, he could not keep it in; he lets it run away as best it can, that so his heart may be emptied of the fermenting mixture. But he took care where he outpoured his complaint, lest he should do mischief, or receive an ill return.
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Romans 8:26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.
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For it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
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Psalms 62:8Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
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Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives…