Bible Verses About Prayer

I rise before dawn and cry for help; I put my hope in your word.

In your grace, hear my voice; ADONAI, in keeping with your justice, revive me.

(Resh) Look at my distress, and rescue me, for I do not forget your Torah.

Let your hand be ready to help me, because I choose your precepts.

I long for your deliverance, ADONAI; and your Torah is my delight.

Let me live, and I will praise you; let your rulings help me.

I strayed like a lost sheep; seek out your servant; for I do not forget your mitzvot.

A song of ascents: I called to ADONAI in my distress, and he answered me.

Let all who hate Tziyon be thrown back in confusion.

A song of ascents. By David: ADONAI, I call to you from the depths;

hear my cry, Adonai! Let your ears pay attention to the sound of my pleading.

Yah, if you kept a record of sins, who, Adonai, could stand?

When I called, you answered me, you made me bold and strong.

May the heads of those who surround me be engulfed in the evil they spoke of, themselves.

May burning coals rain down on them, may they be flung into the fire, flung into deep pits, never to rise again.

A psalm of David: ADONAI, I have called you; come to me quickly! Listen to my plea when I call to you.

Let my prayer be like incense set before you, my uplifted hands like an evening sacrifice.

A maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A prayer: With my voice I cry to ADONAI, with my voice I plead to ADONAI for mercy.

Before him I pour out my complaint, before him I tell my trouble.

A psalm of David: ADONAI, hear my prayer; listen to my pleas for mercy. In your faithfulness, answer me, and in your righteousness.

Make me hear of your love in the morning, because I rely on you. Make me know the way I should walk, because I entrust myself to you.

For your name's sake, ADONAI, preserve my life; in your righteousness, bring me out of distress.

In your grace, cut off my enemies; destroy all those harassing me; because I am your servant.

Shoot out lightning, and scatter them; send out your arrows, and rout them.

ADONAI is close to all who call on him, to all who sincerely call on him.