Bible Verses About Prayer

Hearken vnto my voyce, O Lord, when I crie: haue mercie also vpon mee and heare mee.

When thou saidest, Seeke ye my face, mine heart answered vnto thee, O Lord, I will seeke thy face.

Hide not therefore thy face from mee, nor cast thy seruat away in displeasure: thou hast bene my succour: leaue me not, neither forsake mee, O God of my saluation.

A Psalme of David. Unto thee, O Lord, doe I crie: O my strength, be not deafe toward mee, lest, if thou answere me not, I be like them that goe downe into the pit.

Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle.

Reward them according to their deedes, and according to the wickednes of their inuentions: recompense them after the woorke of their handes: render them their reward.

Praised be the Lord, for he hath heard the voyce of my petitions.

O Lord my God, I cried vnto thee, and thou hast restored me.

O Lord, thou hast brought vp my soule out of the graue: thou hast reuiued me from them that goe downe into the pit.

For thou art my rocke and my fortresse: therefore for thy Names sake direct mee and guide me.

For my life is wasted with heauinesse, and my yeeres with mourning: my strength faileth for my paine, and my bones are consumed.

Let me not be confounded, O Lord: for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked bee put to confusion, and to silence in the graue.

Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

Though I said in mine haste, I am cast out of thy sight, yet thou heardest the voyce of my prayer, when I cryed vnto thee.

When I helde my tongue, my bones consumed, or when I roared all the day,

Then I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee, neither hid I mine iniquitie: for I thought, I will confesse against my selfe my wickednesse vnto the Lord, and thou forgauest the punishment of my sinne. Selah.

Therefore shall euery one, that is godly, make his prayer vnto thee in a time, when thou mayest be founde: surely in the flood of great waters they shall not come neere him.

I sought the Lord, and he heard me: yea, he deliuered me out of all my feare.

They shall looke vnto him, and runne to him: and their faces shall not be ashamed, saying,

This poore man cryed, and the Lord heard him, and saued him out of all his troubles.

The eyes of the Lord are vpon the righteous, and his eares are open vnto their crie.

The righteous crie, and the Lord heareth them, and deliuereth them out of all their troubles.

Let them be confounded and put to shame, that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe, and brought to confusion, that imagine mine hurt.

Let destruction come vpon him at vnwares, and let his net, that he hath laid priuilie, take him: let him fall into the same destruction.

Thou hast seene it, O Lord: keepe not silence: be not farre from me, O Lord.