Quotes About Prayer

So we prayed to our God and posted a guard against them day and night.

Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.

For they were all trying to frighten us, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will never be finished.” But now, my God, strengthen my hands.

Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you!”

O my God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat for what they have done, and also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who tried to intimidate me.

On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth, with dust on their heads.

While they stood in their places, they read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day, and they spent another quarter of the day in confession and worship of the LORD their God.

And the Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani—stood on the raised platform and cried out in a loud voice to the LORD their God.

So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:

But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,

If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice.

Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply.

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?í