Bible Verses About Prayer

Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.

Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe. For thou art my firmament and my refuge.

For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth.

He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the poor.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who alone doth wonderful things.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

But I will declare for ever: I will sing to the God of Jacob.

And I will break all the horns of sinners: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.

¶ Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.

Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.