Bible Verses About Prayer

Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You shall pay your vows.

“Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

“Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

I cry to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Give ear to my words, LORD. Consider my meditation.

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.

LORD, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.