Bible Verses About Prayer

I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.

Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.

Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.

I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.

Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.

I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.

In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.

May all who hate Zion be turned back in shame.

Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!

O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.

If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?

On the day I called, You answered me; You emboldened me and strengthened my soul.

May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.

May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.

I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.

May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.

I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift my voice to the LORD for mercy.

I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.

O LORD, hear my prayer. In Your faithfulness, give ear to my plea; in Your righteousness, answer me.

Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.

For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.

Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.