Bible Verses About Prayer

Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.

Hide not thy face from me; Put not thy servant away in anger: Thou hast been my help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings: Give them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert.

Blessed be Jehovah, Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

O Jehovah my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name’s sake lead me and guide me.

For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.

As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications, When I cried unto thee.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. [Selah

For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him.

I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, And delivered me from all my fears.

They looked unto him, and were radiant; And their faces shall never be confounded.

This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.

The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous, And his ears are open unto their cry.

The righteous cried, and Jehovah heard, And delivered them out of all their troubles.

Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.

Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.