Bible Verses About Prayer

Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake.

Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

Add iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.

For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners.

Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.

Let them be turned back by reason of their shame That say, Aha, aha.

But I am poor and needy; Make haste unto me, O God: Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, make no tarrying.

Let them be put to shameandconsumed that are adversaries to my soul; Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.

Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.

But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, That I may tell of all thy works.

How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? Pluck itout of thy bosom and consume them.

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.

Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually.

I will cry unto God with my voice, Even unto God with my voice; and he will give ear unto me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.

Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death;

And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?