Bible Verses About Prayer

I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy words.

Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thine ordinances.

Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget thy law.

Let thy hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen thy precepts.

I have longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah; And thy law is my delight.

Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; And let thine ordinances help me.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.

In my distress I cried unto Jehovah, And he answered me.

Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah.

Lord, hear my voice: Let thine ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications.

If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

In the day that I called thou answeredst me, Thou didst encourage me with strength in my soul.

As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise.

Jehovah, I have called upon thee; make haste unto me: Give ear unto my voice, when I call unto thee.

Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

I cry with my voice unto Jehovah; With my voice unto Jehovah do I make supplication.

I pour out my complaint before him; I show before him my trouble.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; give ear to my supplications: In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; For in thee do I trust: Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.

Quicken me, O Jehovah, for thy name’s sake: In thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.

And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

Jehovah is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth.