'Petitions' in the Bible
Listen to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.
As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.
Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.
Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping [and] the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.
My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.
At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went forth, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.