Bible Verses About Prayer: Answer to prayer, delayed

To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' --A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?

My God, I call by day, and Thou answerest not, And by night, and there is no silence to me.

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. I have diligently expected Jehovah, And He inclineth to me, and heareth my cry,

Jehovah, God of Hosts, till when? Thou hast burned against the prayer of Thy people.

Why, O Jehovah, castest Thou off my soul? Thou hidest Thy face from me.

And it cometh to pass, at the end of ten days, that there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah,

Till when, O Jehovah, have I cried, And Thou dost not hear? I cry unto Thee--`Violence,' and Thou dost not save.

and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night--bearing long in regard to them?