Bible Verses About Prayer

Answer me, ADONAI, for your grace is good; in your great mercy, turn to me.

let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see, and let their bodies always be stumbling.

Pour out your fury on them, let your fierce anger overtake them.

Add guilt to their guilt, don't let them enter your righteousness.

Erase them from the book of life, let them not be written with the righteous.

For ADONAI pays attention to the needy and doesn't scorn his captive people.

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

May those who jeer, "Aha! Aha!"withdraw because of their shame.

But I am poor and needy; God, hurry for me. You are my helper and rescuer; ADONAI, don't delay!

May those who are opposed to me be put to shame and ruin; may those who seek to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace.

So now that I'm old, and my hair is gray, don't abandon me, God, till I have proclaimed your strength to the next generation, your power to all who will come,

But for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made Adonai ELOHIM my refuge, so that I can tell of all your works.

How much longer, God, will the foe jeer at us? Will the enemy insult your name forever?

Why do you hold back your hand? Draw your right hand from your coat, and finish them off!

Remember how the enemy scoffs at ADONAI, how a brutish people insults your name.

Look to the covenant, for the land's dark places are full of the haunts of violence.

Don't let the oppressed retreat in confusion; let the poor and needy praise your name.

Arise, God, and defend your cause; remember how brutish men insult you all day.

Don't forget what your foes are saying, the ever-rising uproar of your adversaries.

For the leader. For Y'dutun. A psalm of Asaf: I cry aloud to God, aloud to God; and he hears me.

On the day of my distress I am seeking Adonai; my hands are lifted up; my tears flow all night without ceasing; my heart refuses comfort.

Why should the nations ask, "Where is their God?" Let the vengeance taken on your servants' shed blood be known among the nations before our eyes.

Let the groaning of the captives come before you; by your great strength save those condemned to death.

Repay our neighbors sevenfold where they can feel it for the insults they inflicted on you, Adonai.

ADONAI, God of armies, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?