Bible Verses About Prayer

Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.

Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.

Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.

Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.

Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,

Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.

I haue sinned, what shall I do vnto thee? O thou preseruer of me, why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden vnto my selfe?

Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie,

If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous.

If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:

I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.

Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?

Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.

Mine enemie shall be as the wicked, and he that riseth against me, as the vnrighteous.

He shall pray vnto God, and he will be fauourable vnto him, and he shall see his face with ioy: for he will render vnto man his righteousnes.

So that they haue caused the voyce of the poore to come vnto him, and he hath heard the cry of the afflicted.

Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?

Decke thy selfe now with maiestie and excellencie, and aray thy selfe with beautie and glory.

I did call vnto the Lord with my voyce, and he heard me out of his holy mountaine. Selah.

To him that excelleth on Neginoth. A Psalme of Dauid. Heare me when I call, O God of my righteousnes: thou hast set me at libertie, when I was in distresse: haue mercie vpon me and hearken vnto my prayer.

To him that excelleth upon Nehiloth. A Psalme of Dauid. Heare my wordes, O Lord: vnderstande my meditation.

Hearken vnto the voyce of my crie, my King and my God: for vnto thee doe I pray.

Heare my voyce in the morning, O Lord: for in the morning will I direct me vnto thee, and I will waite.

Destroy them, O God: let them fall from their counsels: cast them out for the multitude of their iniquities, because they haue rebelled against thee.