Bible Verses About Prayer

¶ I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

¶ Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.

¶ RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

¶ Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.

¶ Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.

¶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains, from whence help shall come to me.

my soul hath hoped in the Lord.

A gradual canticle of David. Lord, my heart is not exalted: nor are my eyes lofty. Neither have I walked in great matters, nor in wonderful things above me.

If I was not humbly minded, but exalted my soul: As a child that is weaned is towards his mother, so reward in my soul.

Let Israel hope in the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.

Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.

Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.

The wicked shall fall in his net: I am alone until I pass.

Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave.

I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

A psalm of David, when his son Absalom pursued him. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: give ear to my supplication in thy truth: hear me in thy justice.

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Blessed be the Lord my God, who teacheth my hands to fight, and my fingers to war.

Whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity.

Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall declare thy greatness.

The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.