18 Bible Verses about Prayer, Described As

For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

My voice shalt thou hear betimes, O LORD. Early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

{A Psalm of David} Unto thee, O LORD, will I lift up my soul;

Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto the God that is in heaven.

O put your trust in him always, ye people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. Selah.

Hannah answered, and said, "Not so, my lord. I am a woman sorrowful in mine heart, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

Then departed he thence unto a mountain that lieth on the east side of Bethel and pitched his tent - Bethel being on the west side, and Ai on the east - and he built there an altar unto the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.

I shall find trouble and heaviness, and I will call upon the Name of the LORD, "O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul."

And now: why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptised, and wash away thy sins, in calling on the name of the Lord.'

Hearken unto my voice, O LORD, when I cry unto thee: have mercy upon me, and hear me.

Lo, the poor crieth, and the LORD heareth him, yea, and saveth him out of all his troubles.

But it is good for me to hold me fast by God, to put my trust in the LORD God, and to speak of all thy works in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

let us draw nigh with a true heart in a full faith sprinkled in our hearts, from an evil conscience, and washed in our bodies with pure water,

But Hezekiah the king and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed concerning the thing and cried up to heaven.

Then Moses besought the LORD his God and said, "O LORD, why should thy wrath wax hot upon thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

If thou wouldest now resort unto God betimes, and make thy humble prayer to the Almighty;

My heart hath talked of thee, seek ye my face. Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

Peradventure they will pray meekly before the face of LORD, and turn, every one from his wicked way. For great is the wrath and displeasure, that the LORD hath taken against this people."