Bible Verses About Prayer

Wake up! Get up, my God, my Lord! Defend me and my cause!

May those who gloat over my distress be disgraced and humiliated. May those who aggrandize themselves at my expense be covered with shame and confusion.

Then you will delight yourself in ADONAI, and he will give you your heart's desire.

Commit your way to ADONAI; trust in him, and he will act.

for my iniquities loom high over my head as a heavy burden, too heavy for me.

I have stinking, festering wounds because of my foolishness.

I am bent down, prostrate completely; I go about mourning all day long.

For my insides burn with fever, and my whole body is sick.

I am numb, completely crushed; my anguished heart makes me groan aloud.

My heart is throbbing, my strength is gone, and the light in my eyes has left me.

For it is in you, ADONAI, that I hope. You will answer, Adonai my God.

I said, "Don't let them gloat over me or boast against me when my foot slips."

I acknowledge my guilt, I am anxious because of my sin.

For the leader. A psalm of David: I waited patiently for ADONAI, till he turned toward me and heard my cry.

For numberless evils surround me; my iniquities engulf me - I can't even see; there are more of them than hairs on my head, so that my courage fails me.

May those who seek to sweep me away be disgraced and humiliated together. May those who take pleasure in doing me harm be turned back and put to confusion.

May those who jeer at me, "Aha! Aha!" be aghast because of their shame.

I recall, as my feelings well up within me, how I'd go with the crowd to the house of God, with sounds of joy and praise from the throngs observing the festival.

Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God, pay your vows to the Most High,

and call on me when you are in trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

For the leader. A psalm of David, when Natan the prophet came to him after his affair with Bat-Sheva: God, in your grace, have mercy on me; in your great compassion, blot out my crimes.

For I know my crimes, my sin confronts me all the time.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil from your perspective; so that you are right in accusing me and justified in passing sentence.

May he repay the evil to those who are lying in wait for me. In your faithfulness, destroy them!

For the leader. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David: Listen, God, to my prayer! Don't hide yourself from my plea!