Bible Verses About Prayer

Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

If thou set thy heart aright, And stretch out thy hands toward him;

I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee; And thou shalt pay thy vows.

Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

He prayeth unto God, and he is favorable unto him, So that he seeth his face with joy: And he restoreth unto man his righteousness.

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.

Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yea, twice, but I will proceed no further.

I cry unto Jehovah with my voice, And he answereth me out of his holy hill. [Selah

Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness; Thou hast set me at large when I was in distress: Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Give ear to my words, O Jehovah, Consider my meditation.

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God; For unto thee do I pray.

O Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice; In the morning will I order my prayer unto thee, and will keep watch.

Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.