Bible Verses About Prayer

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”

After ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,

The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”

You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.

You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!

You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.

O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!

You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.