Bible Verses About Prayer

For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.

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

He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the Pit.

Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.

When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

For he never thought to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted, even to their death.

The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.

But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion.

For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me.

I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.

I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Help me, O LORD my God; save me according to Your loving devotion.