Bible Verses About Prayer

That day--let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

That night--let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.

Lo! that night--let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.

Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself--and what?

If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,

If pure and upright thou art , Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

If thou--thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

A laughter to his friend I am: `He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one.

What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear thee, And thy vows thou completest.

As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness.

To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.

Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

My voice is unto Jehovah: I call: And He answereth me from his holy hill, Selah.

To the Overseer with Stringed Instruments. --A Psalm of David. In my calling answer Thou me, O God of my righteousness. In adversity Thou gavest enlargement to me; Favour me, and hear my prayer.

To the Overseer, `Concerning the Inheritances.' --A Psalm of David. My sayings hear, O Jehovah, Consider my meditation.

Be attentive to the voice of my cry, My king and my God, For unto Thee I pray habitually.

Jehovah, at morning Thou hearest my voice, At morning I set in array for Thee, And I look out.

Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall from their own counsels, In the abundance of their transgressions Drive them away, Because they have rebelled against Thee.