Bible Verses About Prayer: Pleas offered in prayer

Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

¶ But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name's sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:

That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

¶ Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

¶ Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.

So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

¶ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

¶ ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

¶ JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

¶ I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

¶ Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

¶ Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

¶ KOPH. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.

¶ Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.

¶ RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.