Bible Verses About Prayer

When you call to me and pray to me, I will listen to you.

When you seek me, you will find me, provided you seek for me wholeheartedly;

They will come weeping and praying as I bring them back. I will lead them by streams of water on smooth paths, so that they won't stumble. For I am a father to Isra'el, and Efrayim is my firstborn son."

'Call out to me, and I will answer you I will tell you great things, hidden things of which you are unaware.'"

Perhaps they will turn to ADONAI in prayer and will return, each one, from his evil way. For the anger and fury which ADONAI has decreed against this people is great."

Ten days later the word of ADONAI came to Yirmeyahu.

"ADONAI is in the right, for I rebelled against his word. Listen, please, all you peoples; and see how I am in pain! My young women and my young men have gone into captivity.

"Let all their wickedness come before you. Then do to them as you have done to me because of all my offenses. For my groans are many, and I am sick at heart."

"Get up! Cry out in the night, at the beginning of every watch! Pour your heart out like water before the face of Adonai! Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your babies, who are fainting away from hunger at every streetcorner."

ADONAI is good to those waiting for him, to those who are seeking him out.

Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven and say,

"We, for our part, have transgressed and rebelled; you, for your part, have not forgiven.

You heard my voice; don't close your ear at my sighs, at my cries.

You came near when I called to you; you said, "Don't be afraid."

Adonai, you defended my cause; you redeemed my life.

ADONAI, you see how I have been wronged; give judgment in my favor!

You have seen all their vindictiveness and all their plots against me.

You have heard their taunts, ADONAI, and all their plots against me,

the whispered murmurings of my foes against me all day long.

See how, whether they sit or stand, I am the butt of their taunts.

Repay them, ADONAI, as their deeds deserve.

Give them hardheartedness as your curse on them.

Pursue them in anger! Destroy them from under your heavens!

The crown has fallen from our heads. Woe to us! for we have sinned.

"Adonai ELOHIM says, 'In addition, I will let the house of Isra'el pray to me to do this for them: to increase their numbers like sheep -