'Prayer' in the Bible

For You, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made a revelation to Your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house’; therefore Your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to You.

Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today;

that Your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, toward the place of which You have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.

whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart, and spreading his hands toward this house;

then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven Your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.

The Lord said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

“Return and say to Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord.

Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You;

that Your eye may be open toward this house day and night, toward the place of which You have said that You would put Your name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.

whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own pain, and spreading his hands toward this house,

then hear from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, their prayer and supplications, and maintain their cause and forgive Your people who have sinned against You.

“Now, O my God, I pray, let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer came to His holy dwelling place, to heaven.

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of Israel.

His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai.

let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, on behalf of the sons of Israel Your servants, confessing the sins of the sons of Israel which we have sinned against You; I and my father’s house have sinned.

O Lord, I beseech You, may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and the prayer of Your servants who delight to revere Your name, and make Your servant successful today and grant him compassion before this man.”Now I was the cupbearer to the king.

and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the leader in beginning the thanksgiving at prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren; and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

Although there is no violence in my hands,And my prayer is pure.

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!You have relieved me in my distress;Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

In the morning, O Lord, You will hear my voice;In the morning I will order my prayer to You and eagerly watch.

The Lord has heard my supplication,The Lord receives my prayer.

A Prayer of David.Hear a just cause, O Lord, give heed to my cry;Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;I humbled my soul with fasting,And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;Do not be silent at my tears;For I am a stranger with You,A sojourner like all my fathers.

The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;And His song will be with me in the night,A prayer to the God of my life.

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

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.Give ear to my prayer, O God;And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

For the choir director; on a stringed instrument. A Psalm of David.Hear my cry, O God;Give heed to my prayer.

O You who hear prayer,To You all men come.

But certainly God has heard;He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

Blessed be God,Who has not turned away my prayerNor His lovingkindness from me.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time;O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness,Answer me with Your saving truth.

O Lord God of hosts,How long will You be angry with the prayer of Your people?

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah.

A Prayer of David.Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me;For I am afflicted and needy.

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer;And give heed to the voice of my supplications!

Let my prayer come before You;Incline Your ear to my cry!

But I, O Lord, have cried out to You for help,And in the morning my prayer comes before You.

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.

A Prayer of the Afflicted when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the Lord.Hear my prayer, O Lord!And let my cry for help come to You.

He has regarded the prayer of the destituteAnd has not despised their prayer.

In return for my love they act as my accusers;But I am in prayer.

When he is judged, let him come forth guilty,And let his prayer become sin.

May my prayer be counted as incense before You;The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.

Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me;It is oil upon the head;Do not let my head refuse it,For still my prayer is against their wicked deeds.

Maskil of David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.I cry aloud with my voice to the Lord;I make supplication with my voice to the Lord.

A Psalm of David.Hear my prayer, O Lord,Give ear to my supplications!Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,But the prayer of the upright is His delight.

The Lord is far from the wicked,But He hears the prayer of the righteous.

He who turns away his ear from listening to the law,Even his prayer is an abomination.

“So when you spread out your hands in prayer,I will hide My eyes from you;Yes, even though you multiply prayers,I will not listen.Your hands are covered with blood.

O Lord, they sought You in distress;They could only whisper a prayer,Your chastening was upon them.

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Even those I will bring to My holy mountainAnd make them joyful in My house of prayer.Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar;For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”

“As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you.

“Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them; for I will not listen when they call to Me because of their disaster.

Even when I cry out and call for help,He shuts out my prayer.

You have covered Yourself with a cloudSo that no prayer can pass through.

You have heard my voice,“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,From my cry for help.”

So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.

while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.

“While I was fainting away,I remembered the Lord,And my prayer came to You,Into Your holy temple.

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.

[But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”]

And He *said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it a robbers’ den.”

And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

And He said to them, “This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer.”

And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.”

And the whole multitude of the people were in prayer outside at the hour of the incense offering.

It was at this time that He went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.

saying to them, “It is written, ‘And My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a robbers’ den.”

When He rose from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow,

These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.

They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer.

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

and he *said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.

So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God.

And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.

It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling.

Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.

rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer,

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,

always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all,

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving;

for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.

and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.