Bible Verses About Prayer

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Maker,

Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; they called on the LORD, and he answered them.

He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.

You answered them, LORD our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.

Hear my prayer, LORD! Let my cry come to you.

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise the LORD.

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, the LORD saw the earth;

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

Seek the LORD and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Sea of Suf.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

Save us, LORD, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!