Bible Verses About Prayer

Then shall you crie vnto mee, and ye shall go and pray vnto me, and I will heare you,

And ye shall seeke mee and finde mee, because ye shall seeke mee with all your heart.

They shall come weeping, and with mercie will I bring them againe: I will lead them by the riuers of water in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first borne.

Call vnto me, and I will answere thee, and shewe thee great and mightie things, which thou knowest not.

It may be that they will pray before the Lord, and euery one returne from his euill way, for great is the anger and the wrath, that the Lord hath declared against this people.

And so after ten dayes came the word of the Lord vnto Ieremiah.

The Lord is righteous: for I haue rebelled against his commandement: heare, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorowe: my virgins and my yong men are gone into captiuitie.

Let all their wickednes come before thee: do vnto them, as thou hast done vnto me, for all my transgressions: for my sighes are many, and mine heart is heauy.

Arise, cry in the night: in the beginning of the watches powre out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift vp thine handes towarde him for the life of thy yong children, that faint for hunger in the corners of all the streetes.

The Lord is good vnto them, that trust in him, and to the soule that seeketh him.

Let vs lift vp our hearts with our handes vnto God in the heauens.

We haue sinned, and haue rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.

Thou hast heard my voyce: stoppe not thine eare from my sigh and from my cry.

Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saydest, Feare not.

O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my life.

O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.

Thou hast seene all their vengeance, and all their deuises against me.

Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:

The lippes also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.

Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.

Giue them a recompence, O Lord, according to the worke of their handes.

Giue them sorow of heart, euen thy curse to them.

Persecute with wrath and destroy them from vnder the heauen, O Lord.

The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.

Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be sought of ye house of Israel, to performe it vnto them: I wil encrease them with men like a flocke.