Bible Verses About Prayer

Remember, Adonai, the taunts hurled at your servants, which I carry in my heart [from] so many peoples!

Your enemies, ADONAI, have flung their taunts, flung them in the footsteps of your anointed one.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble. I will extricate him and bring him honor.

Assert yourself as judge of the earth! Pay back the proud as they deserve!

Come, let's bow down and worship; let's kneel before ADONAI who made us.

Moshe and Aharon among his cohanim and Sh'mu'el among those who call on his name called on ADONAI, and he answered them.

He spoke to them in the column of cloud; they kept his instructions and the law that he gave them.

ADONAI our God, you answered them. To them you were a forgiving God, although you took vengeance on their wrongdoings.

Prayer of a sufferer overcome by weakness and pouring out his complaint before ADONAI: ADONAI, hear my prayer! Let my cry for help reach you!

Don't hide your face from me when I am in such distress! Turn your ear toward me; when I call, be quick to reply!

when he has heeded the plea of the poor and not despised their prayer.

May this be put on record for a future generation; may a people yet to be created praise ADONAI.

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven ADONAI surveys the earth

to listen to the sighing of the prisoner, to set free those who are sentenced to death,

Glory in his holy name; let those seeking ADONAI have joyful hearts.

Seek ADONAI and his strength; always seek his presence.

Together with our ancestors, we have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly.

Our ancestors in Egypt failed to grasp the meaning of your wonders. They didn't keep in mind your great deeds of grace but rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Suf.

Still he took pity on their distress whenever he heard their cry.

Save us, ADONAI our God! Gather us from among the nations, so that we can thank your holy name and glory in praising you.

In their trouble they cried to ADONAI, and he rescued them from their distress.

He led them by a direct path to a city where they could live.

In their trouble they cried to ADONAI, and he rescued them from their distress.

He led them from darkness, from death-dark gloom, shattering their chains.

Let them give thanks to ADONAI for his grace, for his wonders bestowed on humanity!