Bible Verses About Prayer

And you shall call upon me, and you shall go. and you shall pray to me, and I will hear you.

You shall seek me, and shall find me: when you shall seek me with all your heart.

They shall come with weeping: and I will bring them back in mercy: and I will bring them through the torrents of waters in a right way, and they shall not stumble in it: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Cry to me and I will hear thee: and I will shew thee great things, and sure things which thou knowest not.

If so be they may present their supplication before the Lord, and may return every one from his wicked way: for great is the wrath and indignation which the Lord hath pronounced against this people.

Now after ten days, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.

Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity.

Thau. Let all their evil be present before thee: and make vintage of them, as thou hast made vintage of me for all my iniquities: for my sighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.

Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the watches: pour out thy heart like water, before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.

Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.

Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.

Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy ear from my sighs, and cries.

Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.

Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul, thou the Redeemer of my life.

Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me: judge thou my judgment.

Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.

Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.

Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and their devices against me all the day.

Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.

Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy labour.

Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this shall the house of Israel find me, that I will do it for them: I will multiply them as a flock of men,