Bible Verses About Prayer

Hear, O Jehovah, my voice--I call, And favour me, and answer me.

To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

Hide not Thy face from me, Turn not aside in anger Thy servant, My help Thou hast been. Leave me not, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. According to the work of their hands give to them. Return their deed to them.

Blessed is Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications.

Jehovah my God, I have cried to Thee, And Thou dost heal me.

Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down to the pit.

For my rock and my bulwark art Thou, For Thy name's sake lead me and tend me.

For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

O Jehovah, let me not be ashamed, For I have called Thee, let the wicked be ashamed, Let them become silent to Sheol.

Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.

And I--I have said in my haste, `I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, `I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou--Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For this doth every saintly one pray to Thee, As the time to find. Surely at an overflowing of many waters, Unto him they come not.

I sought Jehovah, and He answered me, And from all my fears did deliver me.

They looked expectingly unto Him, And they became bright, And their faces are not ashamed.

This poor one called, and Jehovah heard, And from all his distresses saved him.

The eyes of Jehovah are unto the righteous, And His ears unto their cry.

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them.

They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, Turned backward and confounded, Those devising my evil.

Meet him doth desolation--he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, Be not silent, O Lord--be not far from me,