'Prayer' in the Bible
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. A Prayer by David.
Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.
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.
"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.
Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide yourself from my supplication.
But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me. For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.
But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.
Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps. A Prayer by David.
Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.
But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen. BOOK IV A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.
Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city. A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.
When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by. A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.
Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.