Bible Verses About Prayer

Listen, ADONAI, to my voice when I cry; show favor to me; and answer me.

"My heart said of you, 'Seek my face.'"Your face, ADONAI, I will seek.

Do not hide your face from me, don't turn your servant away in anger. You are my help; don't abandon me; don't leave me, God my savior.

By David: ADONAI, I am calling to you; my Rock, don't be deaf to my cry. For if you answer me with silence, I will be like those who fall in a pit.

Hear the sound of my prayers when I cry to you, when I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

Pay them back for their deeds, as befits their evil acts; repay them for what they have done, give them what they deserve.

Blessed be ADONAI, for he heard my voice as I prayed for mercy.

ADONAI my God, I cried out to you, and you provided healing for me.

ADONAI, you lifted me up from Sh'ol; you kept me alive when I was sinking into a pit.

Since you are my rock and fortress, lead me and guide me for your name's sake.

For my life is worn out with sorrow and my years with sighing; my strength gives out under my guilt, and my bones are wasting away.

ADONAI, don't let me be put to shame, for I have called on you; let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silenced in Sh'ol.

May lying lips be struck dumb, that speak insolently against the righteous with such pride and contempt.

As for me, in my alarm I said, "I have been cut off from your sight!"Nevertheless, you heard my pleas when I cried out to you.

When I kept silent, my bones wasted away because of my groaning all day long;

When I acknowledged my sin to you, when I stopped concealing my guilt, and said, "I will confess my offenses to ADONAI"; then you, you forgave the guilt of my sin. (Selah)

This is what everyone faithful should pray at a time when you can be found. Then, when the floodwaters are raging, they will not reach to him.

I sought ADONAI, and he answered me; he rescued me from everything I feared.

They looked to him and grew radiant; their faces will never blush for shame.

This poor man cried; ADONAI heard and saved him from all his troubles.

The eyes of ADONAI watch over the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.

[The righteous] cried out, and ADONAI heard, and he saved them from all their troubles.

May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to confusion; may those who are plotting harm for me be repulsed and put to shame.

May destruction come over him unawares. May the net he concealed catch himself; may he fall into it and be destroyed.

You saw them, ADONAI; don't stay silent. Adonai, don't stay far away from me.