Quotes About Intercession

“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the kingís provinces.

And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Jobís regular practice.

Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is on high.

Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!

Give me, I pray, the pledge You demand. Who else will be my guarantor?

He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”

to be gracious to him and say, ëSpare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,í

So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Jobís request.

Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand.

O LORD, save the king. Answer us on the day we call.

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.

Summon Your power, O God; show Your strength, O God, which You have exerted on our behalf.

Let Your hand be upon the man at Your right hand, on the son of man You have raised up for Yourself.

Take notice of our shield, O God, and look with favor on the face of Your anointed.

Moses and Aaron were among His priests; Samuel was among those who called on His name. They called to the LORD and He answered.

He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:

So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

Respond and save us with Your right hand, that Your beloved may be delivered.

O LORD, save us, we pray. We beseech You, O LORD, cause us to prosper!

For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.

When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.