Bible Verses About Private Prayer

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God;

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Then the king said to me, “For what do you make request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

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

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying,

Ah Lord GOD! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,

who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, the LORD of Hosts is his name;

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made yourself a name, as in this day;

and brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;

and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn’t obey your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come upon them.

Behold, the mounds, they have come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Kasdim who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.

You have said to me, Lord GOD, Buy the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Kasdim.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.

Then Jonah prayed to the LORD, his God, out of the fish’s belly.

LORD, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

Then Yeshua came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go there and pray.”