Bible Verses About Prayer

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.

It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.

After ten days, the LORD’s word came to Jeremiah.

The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.

You heard my voice; don’t hide your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, Don’t be afraid.

Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their devices against me,

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

You will render to them a recompense, LORD, according to the work of their hands.

You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

Thus says the Lord GOD: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.