Bible Verses About Prayer

`And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you,

And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;

With weeping they come in, And with supplications I bring them, I cause them to go unto streams of waters, In a right way--they stumble not in it, For I have been to Israel for a father, And Ephraim--My first-born is he.

Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things--thou hast not known them.

if so be their supplication doth fall before Jehovah, and they turn back each from his evil way, for great is the anger and the fury that Jehovah hath spoken concerning this people.'

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

Righteous is Jehovah, For His mouth I have provoked. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Come in doth all their evil before Thee, And one is doing to them as Thou hast done to me, For all my transgressions, For many are my sighs, and my heart is sick!

Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.

Good is Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul that seeketh Him.

We lift up our heart on the hands unto God in the heavens.

We--we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou--Thou hast not forgiven.

My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing--at my cry.

Thou hast drawn near in the day I call Thee, Thou hast said, Fear not.

Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.

Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause.

Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me,

The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.

Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I am their song.

Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands.

Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them.

Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!

Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Yet this I am required, By the house of Israel to do to them, I multiply them as a flock of men,