108 Bible Verses about Asking for Help

You know, it's tough sometimes to ask for help, even when things are really piling up and you just don't know what to do. It's easy to try to go it alone, to wear yourself out physically and emotionally, all because you don't want to bother anyone or be judged. We build up these walls to protect ourselves, forgetting that there are people around us who genuinely want to help, and ultimately, we forget Jesus. He offers true love, never condemns, and has solutions for everything we face.

If there's anyone you should never hesitate to reach out to, it's God. He's right there with you, your rock, holding your hand and saying, "Don't be afraid, I'm here to help." He wants you to trust completely that in His hands, you'll find peace. Open your heart to Him. Tell Him everything that's going on, the good, the bad, the painful. Let it all out. Cry if you need to. Let His love heal you and lift you up.

Asking the right person for help isn't a bad thing. Jesus won't shame you or broadcast your struggles. He wants you to empty yourself, to get it all off your chest, and be free from anything that's holding you back. In every situation, He wants to work in your life and for you to share His goodness and the amazing things He does.

God loves you and cares for you like you wouldn't believe. He cares about your family, your finances, your health, everything. Remember His promise in Isaiah 41:10 (NIV): "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Notice, it doesn't say He *might* help you sometime. It says He *will* always help you. You just need to ask, trusting that He hears you and He answers.

Right here, right now, receive God's peace and the confidence to come before Him without fear. Lay it all out. Your help comes from the Creator of heaven and earth, who is good and whose mercies are new every morning.

(Shir HaMa'alot) 1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the harim (hills), from whence cometh ezri (my help).Ezri (my help) cometh from Hashem, Oseh Shomayim va'Aretz.

Keep asking and it shall be given to you; keep searching and you shall find; keep knocking and the delet shall be opened to you.

HASHLECH AL ADONOI Y'HAVECHA V'HU Y'CHALKELECHA (Cast your care on Hashem and He will sustain you), because Hashem cares and is concerned about you.

But if any one of you is lacking chochmah (wisdom), let him direct tefillah (prayer) and techinot (petitions) to Hashem, the One whose matanot (gifts) are given generously and without grudging, and chochmah will be given to him.

Be anxious in nothing, but in everything by tefillah and by techinnah (supplication) with hodayah (thanksgiving), let your requests be made known before Hashem,And the shalom Hashem, surpassing all binah (understanding), will guard your levavot and your machshavot (thoughts) in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.

Show mishpochah (family) affection to one another in ahavah shel achvah (brotherly love). Be first in esteeming one another, in showing mutual respect.

The face of Hashem is against them that do rah, to cut off the zekher (remembrance) of them from ha'aretz.

Bear one anotherʼs burdens and thus you will fulfill the Torah of Moshiach.

I called upon Hashem in distress; Hashem answered me, and set me in a broad place.

Baruch hu Hashem Elohim Avi of Adoneinu Yehoshua HaMoshiach, Avi HaRachamim vaElohei kol nechamah (comfort),The one giving us chizzuk (strengthening) with respect to all our tzoros so as to enable us to give chizzuk to the ones experiencing tzoros, and that through the nechamah (comfort) by which we ourselves are comforted by Hashem.

An ish of many companions may come to ruin, but there is an ohev (friend) that sticketh closer than a brother.

Come to me, all you who are burden-weary and heavy laden, and I will give you Shabbos menuchah.Take my ol (yoke) upon you and learn from me, for I am anav (humble) and have shiflut (lowliness) in lev (heart), and you will find menuchah (rest, security) for your nefashot (souls).They asked him, Tell us. Are you Hu Habah (He who comes) or is our chikiah (wait) to be for the Bias (Coming) of another?For my ol (yoke) is easy and my burden is light.

He giveth ko'ach to the faint; and to them that have no might He increaseth power.The voice of him that preacheth in the midbar: Prepare ye the Derech Hashem, make straight in the Aravah a highway for Eloheinu.Even the ne'arim (youths) shall faint and grow weary, and the bochurim shall utterly fall;But they that wait upon Hashem shall renew their ko'ach; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not grow weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Achim b'Moshiach of mine, I myself am convinced concerning you, that you yourselves too are full of yosher (rectitude), full of da'as, able also to admonish one another.

And call upon Me in the Yom Tzarah; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me.

Therefore, as Bechirim (Chosen ones) of Hashem, Kedoshim and ahuvim, enrobe yourselves in tender feelings of rachmei Shomayim (heavenly compassion, mercy), chesed (lovingkindness), anavah (humility), shiflut (lowliness), and savlanut (longsuffering),

Without counsel, plans go amiss, but in the multitude of yo'atzim (counsellors) they are established.

Therefore, give chozek (strength) and encouragement, building up one another, as indeed you are doing.

Let Thine Yad help me; for I have chosen Thy pikkudim.

In like manner, let your light so shine before Bnei Adam, that they may see your ma'asim tovim (good works) and give kavod (glory) to your Av sh'ba'Shomayim (Father in Heaven).

For Hashem did not bestow upon us a ruach of pachad (terror), but of gevurah (miraculous power) and of ahavah (love) and of sound havchanah (judgment).

Thou art my seter (hiding place, shelter); Thou shalt preserve me from tzoros; Thou shalt envelop me with songs of deliverance. Selah

Modeh Ani (I thank) my G-d upon every zikaron (remembrance) of you,

And He shall judge the tevel (world) in tzedek, He shall govern the nations with justice.

Then shalt thou call, and Hashem shall answer; thou shalt cry for help, and He shall say: Hineni! If thou remove from the midst of thee the motah (yoke), the pointing of the etzba (finger [of contempt]) and speaking aven (evil, lashon hora);

(For the one directing. With stringed instruments. Of Dovid)Hear my cry, Elohim; attend unto my tefillah.

Trust in Hashem with all thine lev, and lean not unto thine own binah (understanding).In all thy drakhim acknowledge Him, and He shall make yosher thy orkhot (paths).

(For the one directing, Of Dovid. Mizmor)I have preached tzedek in the kahal rav (great congregation); hinei, I have not restrained my lips, O Hashem, Thou knowest.I have not hid thy tzedek within my lev; I have declared Thy emunah (faithfulness) and Thy teshuah (salvation); I have not concealed Thy chesed and Thy emes from the kahal rav.Withhold not Thou thy rachamim from me, O Hashem; let Thy chesed and Thy emes continually preserve me.For innumerable evils have compassed me about; mine avonot (iniquities) have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head; therefore my lev faileth me.Be pleased, O Hashem, to deliver me; O Hashem, make haste to help me.Let them be ashamed and mutually confounded that seek after my nefesh to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.Let them be appalled because of their boshet (shame) that say unto me, Aha, aha.Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; let such as love Thy teshuah say continually: Hashem be magnified!But I am poor and needy; yet Adonoi thinketh upon me; Thou art my ezer and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O Elohai.I waited patiently for Hashem; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

He is the Rofeh (healer) of the Shevurei-lev (broken in heart), binds up their wounds.

When thou passest through the mayim, I will be with thee; and through the neharot, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the eish, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

And HaAdon said to me, “My Chesed is ad kahn (sufficient for the purpose, enough) for you, for My ko'ach (power) is perfected in weakness.” With lev samei'ach therefore will I boast in my weaknesses that the gevurah of Moshiach might be a shelter over me.

In the same way, the Ruach Hakodesh helps us in our weakness. For as we daven, we do not know as we should for what to make tefillos (prayers), but the Ruach HaKodesh Himself intercedes on our behalf with labor pang groans not intelligibly uttered.

I cried with my kol lev; hear me, Hashem; I will keep Thy chukkim.I cried unto Thee; save me, and I shall be shomer over Thy edot (testimonies).

For where two or three are gathered as a Chavurah and are a Kehillah in my name, there I am in the midst of them.

[Dalet] Show me Thy ways, Hashem; teach me Thy paths.[Heh Vav] Lead me in Thy emes, and teach me; for Thou art the Elohei of my Salvation; on Thee do I wait kol hayom.

And let us consider how to meorer (stimulate, motivate, shtarken) one another to ahavah and mitzvos,And let us not turn away and defect from our noiheg (habitually) conducted daily minyan, as some are doing; let us impart chizzuk (strengthening, encouragement) to one another, and by so much the more as you see the Yom approaching.

In the day when I called out, Thou answeredst me, and madest me bold with oz (strength) in my nefesh.

And my G-d will fill every machsor (shortage, want) of yours according to his osher (riches) in Kavod in Moshiach Yehoshua.

For V'HAYAH KOL ASHER YIKRA B'SHEM ADONOI (Everyone whoever calls upon the Name of the L-rd — Yoel 3:5 [2:32]) shall be delivered.

In my yom tzoros I will call upon Thee; for Thou wilt answer me.

Though echad may be overpowered, shnayim shall withstand him; and a khoot hameshulash (threefold cord) is not quickly broken.

No nissayon (temptation) has overtaken you, except that which is common to Bnei Adam, but, Hashem is ne'eman (faithful), who will not let you to be brought into nissayon beyond what you are able, but will make with the nissayon also the derech [Tzaddikim] as a way out for you to be able to endure.

Unless Hashem had been my help, my nefesh had almost dwelt in dumah (silence).When I said, My regel (foot) slippeth, Thy chesed, Hashem, held me up.In the multitude of my anxieties within me Thy comforts delight my nefesh.

Adonoi Hashem hath given Me the leshon limmudim (learned tongue of disciples), that I should know how to speak a devar (word, i.e., word of consolation) in season to him that is weary; He wakeneth baboker baboker (morning by morning), He wakeneth Mine ozen (ear) to hear as the limmudim (disciples, those being taught).

Therefore, everything that you wish Bnei Adam do for you, thus also you do for them. For this is the Torah and the Neviim.

And this is the bitachon which we have with Him, that if we daven and request anything according to His ratzon (will), He hears us.And if we have da'as that He hears us, whatever we ask, we have da'as that we have the requests which we asked from Him.

(For the one directing. Mizmor Dovid)Channeni, Hashem, for I am in tzoros; mine eye is consumed with ka'as (grief), my nefesh and my beten.For my life is spent with grief, and my years with groaning; my ko'ach faileth because of mine avon (iniquity), and my atzmot waste away.I was a cherpah (reproach, scorn, disgrace) among all mine enemies, but especially among my shchenim (neighbors), and a dread to mine acquaintance; they that did see me outside fled from me.I am forgotten like a dead man out of mind; I am like a keli oved (broken vessel).For I have heard the dibbah (evil report, slander) of many; terror was on every side; while they conspire against me, they plot to take my nefesh.But I trust in Thee, Hashem; I said, Thou art Elohai.My times are in Thy yad; deliver me from the yad of mine oyevim (enemies), and from them that persecute me.Make Thy face to shine upon Thy eved; hoshi'eini (save me) for the sake of Thy chesed.Let me not be put to shame, Hashem; for I have called upon Thee; let the resha'im be put to shame, and let them keep silent in Sheol.Let the siftei sheker (lying lips) be put to silence; which speak insolent things with ga'avah (pride) and contemptuously against the tzaddik.In Thee, Hashem, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in Thy tzedakah.

Now let us not lose chozek in doing Gemilut Chasadim, for BE'ITO (in its season) we will reap, if we faint not.

[Koph] Karov (near) is Hashem unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in emes.

For Hashem giveth chochmah; out of His Peh (mouth) cometh da'as (knowledge) and tevunah (understanding).

Let each of you talmidim look after not only your own interests, but also the best interests of others.

In view of these things, what therefore shall we say? If Hashem is for us, who is against us?

Now I exhort you, Achim b'Moshiach, b'Shem Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, that you all speak the same thing and that there not be among you machlokot (divisions of dissension), but that you may have achdus (unity) in the same mind and in the same way of thinking.

Search me, O El, and know my levav; test me, and know my thoughts;And see if there be any derech otzev (torturous crooked road) in me, and lead me in the Derech Olam.

Fier zich (comport oneself) in your derech free of chamdanut (covetousness), being content with what you have, for He Himself has said, LO ARPECHA V'LO E'EZVECHA (I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you),So that we say with bitachon, HASHEM LI my helper, LO IRA MAH YA'ASEH LI ADAM? (The L-rd is my helper, I will not be afraid. What shall man do to me?)

Thou wilt keep him in shalom shalom, whose yetzer (mind-set) is stayed on Thee; because he trusteth in Thee.

[Tzade] The tzoros of my lev are multiplied; O bring Thou me forth out of my distresses.

The lev melech is in the yad Hashem, as the channels of mayim; He directeth it wherever He will.

But Adoneinu stood with me, and empowered me, that through me the hachrazah (proclamation, kerygma) of the Besuras HaGeulah might be fully preached and all the Nations might hear it. And I was rescued out of the mouth of the lion.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep Thy torah; yes, I shall be shomer over it with my kol lev.

But seek first the Malchut Hashem and the Tzidkat Hashem, and all these things will be added to you.

Have simcha in tikvah. Have savlanut in tzoros. Keep davening tefillos.

(For the one directing, Maskil, for the Bnei Korach)I will say unto El Sali (G-d my Rock), Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the oyev (enemy)? As with the crushing of my atzamot (bones), mine tzorer (vexers, harassers) reproach me; while they say all day long unto me, Where is Eloheicha?Why art thou cast down, O my nefesh? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in (wait for) Elohim; for I shall yet give Him thanks, for He is the yeshu'ah (salvation) of my countenance and Elohai.As the deer panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my nefesh after Thee, O Elohim.

I rose before the dawn, and cried out for help; I hoped in Thy Davar.Mine eyes are awake through the ashmurot (night watches), that I might meditate on Thy word.

I will seek haovedet (that which was lost), and bring back that which was straying, and will bind up the nishberet (that which was injured), and will strengthen the cholah (sick); but I will destroy the shemenah (stout, sleek) and the chazakah; I will tend to them with mishpat (justice).

Not that I refer to lack, for I have learned, in whatever circumstances I am, to be tzufrieden (content).

And when one evar (member) has tza'ar (pain and suffering), all the evarim (members) have tza'ar with it; or one evar has the aliyah of kibbud, all the evarim has simcha with it.

For I Hashem Eloheicha will take hold of thy yamin (right hand), saying unto thee: Fear not; I will help thee.

I love Hashem, because He hath heard my kol (voice), even my techinnah.He'emaneti (I believed); therefore have I spoken; I was greatly afflicted.I said in my chafaz (haste, alarm, consternation), Kol HaAdam Kozev (all men are liars).How shall I repay Hashem for all His benefits to me?I will raise the Kos Yeshu'ot (the Cup of Salvation), and call upon Hashem b'Shem (by Name).I will fulfill my nederim (vows) unto Hashem now in the presence of all His people.Precious in the eyes of Hashem is the mavet of His Chasidim.O Hashem, truly I am Thy eved; I am Thy eved, ben amatecha (the son of Thy maid servant); Thou hast removed my chains.I will sacrifice to Thee the zevach todah (the thanksgiving offering) and will call on the Shem Hashem.I will fulfill my nederim to Hashem now in the presence of all His people.In the khatzerot Beis Hashem, in the midst of thee, O Yerushalayim. Praise ye Hashem.Because He hath inclined His ozen (ear) unto me, therefore will I call upon Him while I have days.

The re'a (friend) loveth at all times, and a brother is born for tzarah (adversity).

Therefore, als (since) we have a great Kohen Gadol who has made his passing through Shomayim, Yehoshua Zun fun der Oybershter, let us hold firmly to the hoda'ah (confession) of the hachrazah (proclamation) of our Emunah.For we do not have a Kohen Gadol who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without chet.Therefore, let us approach with bitachon the Kisse of Chesed, that we may receive rachamim and may find chesed for timely ezrah (aid).

Each one according as he received a mattanah (gift), as k'lei kodesh ministering to one another, mefakkechim tovim (good stewards, supervisors) of the varied Chen v'Chesed Hashem.

Hashem is the One shomer over thee; Hashem is thy shade upon thy right hand.The shemesh shall not strike thee by day, nor the yarei'ach by night.Hashem shall preserve thee from kol rah; He shall preserve thy nefesh.Hashem shall be shomer over thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even v'ad olam.

Hinei, El is my Yeshu'ah (Salvation); I will trust, and not be afraid; for Hashem G-d is my strength and my zemirah; He also has become my Yeshu'ah (Salvation).

May the G-d of savlanut and of nechamah give you to live in harmony among yourselves in accordance with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,In order that with achdus of mind and voice you might give kavod to the Elohim and Avi of Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.

The one who gives the kabbalat panim (welcome) to you gives the Baruch Habah (welcome) to me, and the one who gives the Baruch Habah to me gives the Baruch Habah to the One who sent me.

Mine adversaries kol hayom trample me; for they be rabbim that fight against me, Marom (Most High).What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee.

[Shin] Be shomer over my nefesh, and deliver me; let me not be ashamed; for I take refuge in Thee.

He that hath compassion on the dal (poor) lendeth unto Hashem; and for his benefits He will repay him.

The zedim (arrogant ones) have forged a sheker against me; but I will keep Thy pikkudim with my kol lev.

For chochmah is a protective tzel (shade), and kesef is as well; but the advantage of da'as is, that chochmah giveth chayyim (life) to them that possess it.

Yeladim, let us not have ahavah in dvar or in lashon but in ma'aseh and in Emes.

For, Achim B'Moshiach, you were called for “zman Cheruteinu”; only use not the Cherut for a pretext for the basar, but, through ahavah (agape), minister to one another as avadim (servants).

Hashem, be gracious unto us; we have waited for Thee; be Thou their zero'a in the bekarim (mornings), our Yeshu'ah (salvation) also in the time of tzoros.

(For the one directing. According to Yedutun. Mizmor of Dovid)Truly Bnei Adam (those of low estate) are hevel (vanity), and Bnei Ish (those who are highborn) are kazav (a lie); they go up in the balances; they are altogether lighter than hevel (vanity).Trust not in oshek (oppression, extortion) and become not vain in gazel (the thing taken as plunder); if riches increase, set not your lev upon them.Elohim hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that oz (strength) belongeth unto Elohim.Also unto Thee, Adonoi, belongeth chesed; for Thou renderest to ish (every man) according to his ma'asim (deeds).Truly my nefesh waiteth silently upon Elohim; from Him cometh my Yeshu'ah (salvation).

He will not allow thy regel to slip; He that is shomer over thee will not slumber.Hinei, He that is shomer over Yisroel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

In the same way, the Ruach Hakodesh helps us in our weakness. For as we daven, we do not know as we should for what to make tefillos (prayers), but the Ruach HaKodesh Himself intercedes on our behalf with labor pang groans not intelligibly uttered.And He who searches the levavot knows what is the way of thinking of the Ruach Hakodesh, because He intercedes as G-d would have it on behalf of the Kedoshim.

Hashem also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of tzoros.

With all ko'ach being empowered according to the gevurah (power) of his kavod for all savlanut (patience) and orech ruach (longsuffering) with lev same'ach (glad heart),

For innumerable evils have compassed me about; mine avonot (iniquities) have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head; therefore my lev faileth me.

I know, Hashem, Thy mishpatim are tzedek, and Thou in emunah (faithfulness) hast afflicted me.

Stay awake and offer tefillos, lest you enter lidey nisayon. Indeed the ruach is willing but the basar is weak.

Remove from me cherpah (reproach) and contempt; for I have kept Thy edot (testimonies).

He maketh milchamot to cease unto the end of ha'aretz; He breaketh the keshet (bow), and cutteth the khanit (spear); He burneth the chariots in the eish.

Ezri (my help) cometh from Hashem, Oseh Shomayim va'Aretz.

Forsake me not, Hashem Elohai; be not far from me.

But Hashem is with me as a Gibbor Aritz (Mighty Warrior): therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be greatly ashamed, for they shall not succeed; their kelimat olam (everlasting dishonor) shall never be forgotten.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am Eloheicha; I will strengthen thee; indeed, I will help thee; indeed, I will uphold thee with My yamin tzedek.

And Hashem said unto Yehoshua, Fear them not; for I have delivered them into thine yad; there shall not an ish of them stand before thee.

Saying, Avi, im yirtzeh Hashem, if You are willing, take this kos (cup) away from me. Nevertheless not the ratzon of me but rtzonecha (Thy will) be done.

Hear my tefillah, O Elohim; give ear to the words of my mouth.

Therefore, let us approach with bitachon the Kisse of Chesed, that we may receive rachamim and may find chesed for timely ezrah (aid).

And seeing the strong wind, Kefa was afraid, and having begun to sink, Kefa cried out, saying, Azreini! Adoni, hoshieini! (Help! L-rd, save me!)

They divide up my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast goral (lots).

In Thee, Hashem, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in Thy tzedakah.

(For the one directing. Of the Bnei Korach. Al-alamot. Shir)

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