Bible Verses About Prayer

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud.

O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.

Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.

He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.

Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.

Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.

He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.

Let this be written for the generation to come, so that a people not yet created may praise the LORD.

For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth

to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.

Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.