'Prayer' in the Bible

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.

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

The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

Lord, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

A prayer of David. Protect me, O God, for I have taken shelter in you.

You cause me to know the path of life; in your presence is joyful abundance, at your right hand there are pleasures forever. A Davidic Prayer.

{A Prayer of David.} Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

I call upon you, for you will answer me, God. Listen closely to me and hear my prayer.

In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

For the music director; according to the tune "Morning Doe;" a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.

By David. O Lord, I come before you in prayer.

One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

May the Lord be praised, because he has given ear to the voice of my prayer.

Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

When I said in my panic, "I have been cut off in your sight," then you surely heard the voice of my prayer in my plea to you for help.

For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.

In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

For the music director; according to the yonath-elem-rechovim style; a prayer of David, written when the Philistines captured him in Gath. Have mercy on me, O God, for men are attacking me! All day long hostile enemies are tormenting me.

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. In the shadow of your wings I take shelter until trouble passes.

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David. Do you rulers really pronounce just decisions? Do you judge people fairly?

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when Saul sent men to surround his house and murder him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God! Protect me from those who attack me!

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a prayer of David written to instruct others. It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!

{To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David.} Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.

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.