1281 verses about Prayer

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

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

You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

There they cry, but no one gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.

Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

I call on Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,

May He grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!

You have given him his heart’s desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I made supplication to the Lord:

Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.”

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.

Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.