Bible Verses About Prayer

For hee hath broken the gates of brasse, and brast the barres of yron asunder.

Fooles by reason of their transgression, and because of their iniquities are afflicted.

Their soule abhorreth al meat, and they are brought to deaths doore.

Then they crie vnto the Lord in their trouble, and he deliuereth them from their distresse.

He sendeth his worde and healeth them, and deliuereth them from their graues.

That thy beloued may be deliuered: helpe with thy right hand and heare me.

Whe he shalbe iudged, let him be condemned, and let his praier be turned into sinne.

Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.

Let his children be vagabonds and beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.

Let the extortioner catch al that he hath, and let the strangers spoile his labour.

Let there be none to extend mercie vnto him: neither let there be any to shewe mercie vpon his fatherlesse children.

Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out.

Let the iniquitie of his fathers bee had in remembrance with the Lord: and let not the sinne of his mother be done away.

But let them alway be before the Lord, that he may cut off their memorial from ye earth.

Because he remembred not to shew mercie, but persecuted the afflicted and poore man, and the sorowfull hearted to slay him.

As he loued cursing, so shall it come vnto him, and as he loued not blessing, so shall it be farre from him.

As he clothed himselfe with cursing like a rayment, so shall it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.

Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him, and for a girdle, wherewith he shalbe alway girded.

Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from the Lord, and of them, that speake euill against my soule.

But thou, O Lord my God, deale with me according vnto thy Name: deliuer me, (for thy mercie is good)

Because I am poore and needie, and mine heart is wounded within me.

I depart like the shadowe that declineth, and am shaken off as the grashopper.

My knees are weake through fasting, and my flesh hath lost all fatnes.

I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.

Helpe me, O Lord my God: saue me according to thy mercie.