Bible Verses About Prayer

Hear, O LORD, my voice when I call; be merciful and answer me.

My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.

Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.

Blessed be the LORD, for He has heard my cry for mercy.

O LORD my God, I cried to You for help, and You healed me.

O LORD, You pulled me up from Sheol; You spared me from descending into the Pit.

For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.

For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away.

O LORD, let me not be ashamed, for I have called on You. Let the wicked be put to shame; let them lie silent in Sheol.

May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.

I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.

Those who look to Him are radiant with joy; their faces shall never be ashamed.

This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.

The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.

The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.

May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.

May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.

O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.