Bible Verses About Prayer

¶ I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

¶ 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.

¶ Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.

¶ Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.

¶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

¶ A Song of degrees. In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.

¶ Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

¶ A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

¶ A Psalm of David. LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

¶ Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.

I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

¶ A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.