- When fatherless or widowed (PSA 10:14; 146:9)
- When poor and needy (PSA 70:5; 77:12)
- When sick and oppressed (MAR 9:22-27)
- When low (PSA 116:6)
- When in trouble (PSA 22:11; 46:1)
- When in distress (PSA 118:5)
- When persecuted wrongfully (PSA 119:86)
- When others fight against you (PSA 35:1; 58:1; 10:14)
- When outnumbered (PSA 118:13)
- When near famine or death (PSA 33:19)