'Prayer' in the Bible

In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.

I remember God; then I am disquieted and I groan;I sigh [in prayer], and my spirit grows faint. Selah.

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

Righteousness will go before him to prepare a path for his steps. A Davidic prayer

{A Prayer of David.} Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O Lord, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you.

But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

Blessed is the LORD forever! Amen and amen! A prayer by Moses, the godly man

{A Prayer of Moses the man of God.} Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land, eliminating everyone who practices iniquity from the LORD's city. A prayer by the afflicted man who is overwhelmed and talks about his troubles with the LORD.

{A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

Then Phinehas got up, and made prayer for them; and the disease went no farther.

God of my praise, let my prayer be answered;

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

I love the LORD because he has heard my prayer for mercy;

He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.

Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble.

I will give an offering of praise to you, and make my prayer in the name of the Lord.

I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.

I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.

I rise before dawn and cry [in prayer] for help;I wait for Your word.

Let my prayer come before you; take me out of trouble, as you have said.

I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I come through. A Davidic Song, when he was in the cave. A prayer.

{Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave.} I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.

{A Psalm of David.} Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

When you lift up your hands in prayer,I will refuse to look at you;even if you offer countless prayers,I will not listen.Your hands are covered with blood.

But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.

And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

And Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing; and they will return to Yahweh, and he will respond to their prayer, and he will heal them.

LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

And he made prayer to the Lord, saying,

Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.

And Hezekiah, turning his face to the wall, made his prayer to the Lord, saying,

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

This is the prayer of King Hezekiah of Judah when he was sick and then recovered from his illness:

The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.

And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.

The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.

Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.

Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.

And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.

And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.

Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.

Did Hezekiah and all Judah put him to death? did he not in the fear of the Lord make prayer for the grace of the Lord, and the Lord let himself be turned from the decision he had made against them for evil? By this act we might do great evil against ourselves.

And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace.

When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.

When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,

Now after I had given the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, I made my prayer to the Lord, saying,

Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.'

It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.

And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Make prayer now to the Lord our God for us.

And now be pleased to give ear, O my lord the king; let my prayer for help come before you, and do not make me go back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, for fear that I may come to my death there.

And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.

For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.

In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

Let us lift up our hearts and our hands [in prayer]Toward God in heaven;

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.

You have heard my voice,“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,From my cry for help.”

You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.

Standing before these [images] were seventy elders of the house of Israel, and among them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan [the scribe], each man with his censer in his hand and a thick and fragrant cloud of incense was rising [as they prayed to these gods].

This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.

All of [the] administrators of the kingdom, and the prefects, the satraps, the counselors and the governors took counsel [and have] agreed to establish an edict of the king and to enforce a decree that {whoever} will seek a prayer from any god or human except from you [for] up to thirty days will be thrown into {the lion pit}.

And Daniel, on hearing that the writing had been signed, went into his house; (now he had windows in his room on the roof opening in the direction of Jerusalem;) and three times a day he went down on his knees in prayer and praise before his God, as he had done before.

Then they said to the king, "Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the edict that you issued. Three times daily he offers his prayer."

And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

And I made prayer to the Lord my God, putting our sins before him, and said, O Lord, the great God, greatly to be feared. keeping your agreement and mercy with those who have love for you and do your orders;

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

"While I was still speaking in prayer, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and placing my request in the presence of the LORD my God on behalf of the holy mountain of God

Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.

"Daniel, I've now come to give you insight and understanding. Because you're highly regarded, the answer was issued when you began your prayer, and I've come to tell you. Pay attention to my message and you'll understand the vision.

They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.