'Plead' in the Bible

And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

“What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed your servants’ iniquity. We are now my lord’s slaves—both we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”

Then Pharaoh called to Moses and Aaron and said, "Plead with the LORD so that he may remove the frogs from me and my people. I'll let the people go so they can offer sacrifices to the LORD."

Moses told Pharaoh, "You decide when I should plead for you, your servants, and your people to remove the frogs from you and your household. They'll remain only in the Nile River."

make ye supplication unto Jehovah, and plead that there be no voices of God and hail, and I send you away, and ye add not to remain.'

Then Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, I plead with you, do not account this sin to us, in which we have acted foolishly and in which we have sinned.

And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.

Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.

and it hath been, when their fathers or their brethren come in to plead unto us, that we have said unto them, Favour us by them, for we have not taken to each his wife in battle, for ye -- ye have not given to them at this time that ye are guilty.'

And now stand still, that I may plead with you before Jehovah of all the righteous acts of Jehovah which he did to you and to your fathers.

The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,because they have sinned against You,and they return to You and praise Your name,and they pray and plead with Youfor mercy in this temple,

and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,'

Then the king responded to the man of God, “Plead for the favor of the Lord your God and pray for me so that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God pleaded for the favor of the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it had been at first.

If Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,because they have sinned against You,and they return to You and praise Your name,and they pray and plead for mercybefore You in this temple,

Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa ordering their destruction, so that Hathach might show it to Esther, explain it to her, and command her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead with him personally for her people.

If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace.

Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.

If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

Will you show partiality to him? Will you plead God's case?

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must {personally} plead with him.

Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'

I would plead my case before Himand fill my mouth with arguments.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

to show favor to him and to plead, "Deliver him from having to go down to the Pit I know where his ransom is!'

At daybreak, Lord, You hear my voice;at daybreak I plead my case to You and watch expectantly.

{A Psalm of David.} Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins.

Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

for Yahweh will plead [the] cause [of] his people and will have compassion on his servants.

So I say to the LORD, "You are my God; listen to my voice as I plead for mercy, LORD.

A Davidic Maskil. When he was in the cave. A prayer.I cry aloud to the Lord;I plead aloud to the Lord for mercy.

Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.

The first to plead his case seems right,Until another comes and examines him.

The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not,

Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

When the Moabites plead with all their might at their high places, and enter their temples to pray, their prayers will be ineffective!

Furthermore, the crimes of bad people are evil; and they devise wicked schemes, destroying the poor with lying words, even when needy people plead a just cause.

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

This is what the LORD says: "The wealth of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, those Sabeans, men of great heights. They'll come over to you and will be yours; They'll trudge behind you coming over in chains, they'll bow down to you. They'll plead with you, "Surely God is in you; and there is no other God at all.'"

For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.

Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

‘They are fat, they are sleek,They also excel in deeds of wickedness;They do not plead the cause,The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper;And they do not defend the rights of the poor.

"As for you, don't pray on behalf of this people, don't cry or offer a petition for them, and don't plead with me, for I won't listen to you.

So, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not cry out to me or petition me on their behalf. Do not plead with me to save them. For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them."

Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all the people of Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and plead for the Lord’s favor, and did not the Lord relent concerning the disaster He had pronounced against them? We are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”

If they're prophets, and if they have a message from the LORD, let them plead with the LORD of the Heavenly Armies so that the utensils that remain in the LORD's Temple, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem might not be taken to Babylon.

There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

Even when I cry out and plead for help,He rejects my prayer.

O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause;You have redeemed my life.

And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD.

And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Now listen to what the Lord is saying:Rise, plead your case before the mountains,and let the hills hear your voice.

Hear ye, O mountains, the LORD'S controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the LORD hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer, Regem-melech, and their men to plead for the Lord’s favor

the residents of one city will go to another, saying: Let’s go at once to plead for the Lord’s favor and to seek the Lord of Hosts. I am also going.

Many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead for the Lord’s favor.”

But now plead for God's favor that he might be gracious to us. "With this kind of offering in your hands, how can he be pleased with you?" asks the Lord who rules over all.

So the demons began to plead with Jesus, saying, "If you drive us out, send us into that herd of pigs."

"Then you will plead, "'We have eaten and drunk in your company and you have taught in our streets.'

"Then the older son became angry and wouldn't go into the house. So his father came out and began to plead with him.

Then he went on to plead, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!"

Using many different expressions, Peter continued to testify and to plead: "Be saved," he urged them, "from this corrupt generation!"

God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known -- in Elijah -- what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.”

Since, then, we are working with God, we plead with you not to accept God's grace in vain.

Now I myself, Paul, plead with you with the gentleness and kindness of the Messiah I who am humble when I am face to face with you but forceful toward you when I am away!

Do not sharply reprimand an older man, but appeal to him as [you would to] a father, to younger men as brothers,

Hence too He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, seeing that He ever lives to plead for them.