PRAYER

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 18:23

  Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

• Genesis 18:24

  What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

• Genesis 18:25

  Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

• Genesis 18:26

  Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

• Genesis 18:27

  Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

• Genesis 18:28

  What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

• Genesis 18:29

  He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”

• Genesis 18:30

  He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

• Genesis 18:31

  He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”

• Genesis 18:32

  He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”

• Genesis 19:20

  See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”

• Genesis 24:12

  He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

• Genesis 24:14

  Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ and she will say, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’ — let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

• Genesis 24:63

  Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.

• Exodus 14:15

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

• Exodus 33:12

  Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people:’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’

• Exodus 33:18

  He said, “Please show me your glory.”

• Numbers 16:15

  Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”

• Numbers 22:6

  Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

• Numbers 22:7

  The elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand. They came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.

• Numbers 22:8

  He said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as Yahweh shall speak to me.” The princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

• Numbers 22:9

  God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”

• Numbers 22:10

  Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has said to me,

• Numbers 22:11

  ‘Behold, the people that has come out of Egypt covers the surface of the earth. Now, come curse me them. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.’”

• Numbers 23:7

  He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

• Numbers 23:8

  How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

• Numbers 24:9

  He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

• Numbers 24:10

  Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.

• Deuteronomy 1:45

  You returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh didn’t listen to your voice, nor turn his ear to you.

• Deuteronomy 3:23

  I begged Yahweh at that time, saying,

• Deuteronomy 3:24

  “Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?

• Deuteronomy 3:25

  Please let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that fine mountain, and Lebanon.”

• Deuteronomy 3:26

  But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “Let this satisfy you. Speak no more to me of this matter.

• Deuteronomy 3:27

  Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes; for you shall not go over this Jordan.

• Deuteronomy 11:29

  It shall happen, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.

• Deuteronomy 11:30

  Aren’t they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, near Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

• Deuteronomy 23:5

  Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

• Deuteronomy 27:11

  Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,

• Deuteronomy 27:12

  “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

• Deuteronomy 27:13

  These shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

• Deuteronomy 33:11

  Yahweh, bless his skills. Accept the work of his hands. Strike through the hips of those who rise up against him, of those who hate him, that they not rise again.”

• Joshua 7:10

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?

• Joshua 8:33

  All Israel, their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

• Joshua 8:34

  Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

• Joshua 24:10

  but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

• Judges 6:36

  Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,

• Judges 6:37

  behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

• Judges 6:38

  It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

• Judges 6:39

  Gideon said to God, “Don’t let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.”

• Judges 6:40

  God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

• Judges 16:28

  Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

• 2 Samuel 12:22

  He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

• 2 Samuel 12:23

  But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

• 2 Samuel 16:10

  The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

• 2 Samuel 16:11

  David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

• 2 Samuel 16:12

  It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

• 1 Kings 3:7

  Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.

• 1 Kings 3:8

  Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

• 1 Kings 3:9

  Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

• 1 Kings 3:10

  This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

• 1 Kings 3:11

  God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

• 1 Kings 3:12

  behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

• 1 Kings 3:13

  I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

• 1 Kings 3:14

  If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

• 1 Kings 18:24

  You call on the name of your god, and I will call on Yahweh’s name. The God who answers by fire, let him be God.” All the people answered, “What you say is good.”

• 1 Kings 18:25

  Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves, and dress it first; for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

• 1 Kings 18:26

  They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

• 1 Kings 18:27

  At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

• 1 Kings 18:28

  They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

• 1 Kings 18:29

  When midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the evening offering; but there was no voice, no answer, and nobody paid attention.

• 1 Kings 18:30

  Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down.

• 1 Kings 18:31

  Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

• 1 Kings 18:32

  With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs of seed.

• 1 Kings 18:33

  He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.”

• 1 Kings 18:34

  He said, “Do it a second time”; and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time”; and they did it the third time.

• 1 Kings 18:35

  The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

• 1 Kings 18:36

  At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

• 1 Kings 18:37

  Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”

• 1 Kings 18:38

  Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

• 1 Kings 18:39

  When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”

• 2 Chronicles 1:10

  Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

• 2 Chronicles 1:11

  God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,

• 2 Chronicles 1:12

  therefore wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. I will give you riches, wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had who have been before you had, and none after you will have.”

• Ezra 10:1

  Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

• Nehemiah 4:4

  “Hear, our God; for we are despised; and turn back their reproach on their own head, give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity;

• Nehemiah 4:5

  don’t cover their iniquity, and don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”

• Nehemiah 5:13

  Also I shook out my lap, and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn’t perform this promise; even be he shaken out, and emptied like this.” All the assembly said, “Amen,” and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.

• Job 1:20

  Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

• Job 1:21

  He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

• Job 3:1

  After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

• Job 3:2

  Job answered:

• Job 3:3

  “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

• Job 3:4

  Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

• Job 3:5

  Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

• Job 3:6

  As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

• Job 3:7

  Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

• Job 3:8

  Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

• Job 3:9

  Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

• Job 3:10

  because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

• Job 21:15

  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

• Job 27:7

  “Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

• Job 30:20

  I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

• Job 42:12

  So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

• Psalms 5:1

  For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David. Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

• Psalms 5:3

  Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

• Psalms 5:10

  Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

• Psalms 6:10

  May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

• Psalms 9:20

  Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

• Psalms 10:2

  In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

• Psalms 10:15

  Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

• Psalms 22:1

  For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

• Psalms 22:2

  My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

• Psalms 25:3

  Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

• Psalms 28:4

  Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

• Psalms 31:17

  Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

• Psalms 31:18

  Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

• Psalms 35:4

  Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

• Psalms 35:8

  Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

• Psalms 35:26

  Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

• Psalms 40:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

• Psalms 40:14

  Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

• Psalms 40:15

  Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

• Psalms 51:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

• Psalms 51:2

  Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

• Psalms 51:3

  For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

• Psalms 51:4

  Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

• Psalms 51:5

  Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

• Psalms 51:6

  Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

• Psalms 51:7

  Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

• Psalms 51:8

  Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

• Psalms 51:9

  Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

• Psalms 51:10

  Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

• Psalms 51:11

  Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.

• Psalms 51:12

  Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

• Psalms 51:13

  Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.

• Psalms 51:14

  Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

• Psalms 51:15

  Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

• Psalms 51:16

  For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

• Psalms 51:17

  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

• Psalms 54:5

  He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

• Psalms 55:9

  Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

• Psalms 55:15

  Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.

• Psalms 55:17

  Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

• Psalms 56:7

  Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

• Psalms 58:7

  Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

• Psalms 59:5

  You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

• Psalms 59:11

  Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

• Psalms 59:15

  They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.

• Psalms 68:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

• Psalms 68:2

  As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

• Psalms 69:23

  Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

• Psalms 69:24

  Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

• Psalms 69:27

  Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.

• Psalms 69:28

  Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

• Psalms 70:2

  Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

• Psalms 70:3

  Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, “Aha! Aha!”

• Psalms 71:13

  Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

• Psalms 79:10

  Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

• Psalms 79:12

  Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

• Psalms 80:4

  Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

• Psalms 83:13

  My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

• Psalms 83:14

  As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

• Psalms 83:15

  so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

• Psalms 83:16

  Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

• Psalms 83:17

  Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

• Psalms 88:1

  A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

• Psalms 88:13

  But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

• Psalms 88:14

  Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

• Psalms 94:2

  Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

• Psalms 106:14

  but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

• Psalms 106:15

  He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.

• Psalms 109:7

  When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

• Psalms 109:9

  Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

• Psalms 109:10

  Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

• Psalms 109:11

  Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

• Psalms 109:12

  Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.

• Psalms 109:13

  Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

• Psalms 109:14

  Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

• Psalms 109:15

  Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

• Psalms 109:16

  because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

• Psalms 109:17

  Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

• Psalms 109:18

  He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

• Psalms 109:19

  Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

• Psalms 109:20

  This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

• Psalms 109:28

  They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

• Psalms 109:29

  Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

• Psalms 119:78

  Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

• Psalms 119:84

  How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

• Psalms 129:5

  Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

• Psalms 140:9

  As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

• Psalms 140:10

  Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

• Psalms 143:8

  Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

• Psalms 143:12

  In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

• Psalms 144:6

  Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.

• Ecclesiastes 5:2

  Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

• Isaiah 33:2

  Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

• Jeremiah 11:20

  But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

• Jeremiah 12:3

  But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

• Jeremiah 15:15

  Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

• Jeremiah 17:18

  Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

• Jeremiah 18:21

  Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

• Jeremiah 18:22

  Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.

• Jeremiah 18:23

  Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me. Don’t forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you. Deal you with them in the time of your anger.

• Jeremiah 20:12

  But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

• Jeremiah 26:19

  Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”

• Jeremiah 42:7

  After ten days, Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah.

• Lamentations 1:22

  “Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

• Lamentations 3:64

  You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

• Lamentations 3:65

  You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

• Lamentations 3:66

  You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

• Daniel 6:10

  When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

• Habakkuk 1:2

  Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?

• Matthew 6:6

  But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

• Matthew 6:7

  In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

• Matthew 6:9

  Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

• Matthew 6:10

  Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

• Matthew 6:11

  Give us today our daily bread.

• Matthew 6:12

  Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

• Matthew 6:13

  Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

• Matthew 23:14

  “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

• Matthew 26:39

  He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

• Matthew 26:42

  Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

• Matthew 26:44

  He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.

• Matthew 26:45

  Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

• Matthew 26:46

  Arise, let’s be going. Behold, he who betrays me is at hand.”

• Matthew 26:47

  While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

• Matthew 26:48

  Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, “Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him.”

• Matthew 26:49

  Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and kissed him.

• Matthew 26:50

  Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

• Matthew 26:51

  Behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.

• Matthew 26:52

  Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

• Matthew 26:53

  Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

• Matthew 26:54

  How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

• Matthew 26:55

  In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

• Matthew 26:56

  But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

• Matthew 26:57

  Those who had taken Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together.

• Matthew 26:58

  But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

• Matthew 26:59

  Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

• Matthew 26:60

  and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

• Matthew 26:61

  and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”

• Matthew 26:62

  The high priest stood up, and said to him, “Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?”

• Matthew 26:63

  But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

• Matthew 26:64

  Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

• Matthew 26:65

  Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

• Matthew 26:66

  What do you think?” They answered, “He is worthy of death!”

• Matthew 26:67

  Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

• Matthew 26:68

  saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who hit you?”

• Matthew 26:69

  Now Peter was sitting outside in the court, and a maid came to him, saying, “You were also with Jesus, the Galilean!”

• Matthew 26:70

  But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

• Matthew 26:71

  When he had gone out onto the porch, someone else saw him, and said to those who were there, “This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

• Matthew 26:72

  Again he denied it with an oath, “I don’t know the man.”

• Matthew 26:73

  After a little while those who stood by came and said to Peter, “Surely you are also one of them, for your speech makes you known.”

• Matthew 26:74

  Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

• Matthew 26:75

  Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” He went out and wept bitterly.

• Mark 12:40

  those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

• Mark 14:36

  He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

• Luke 6:12

  In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

• Luke 11:2

  He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

• Luke 11:3

  Give us day by day our daily bread.

• Luke 11:4

  Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”

• Luke 18:7

  Won’t God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

• Luke 18:13

  But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

• Luke 20:47

  who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

• Luke 22:42

  saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

• John 17:1

  Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

• John 17:2

  even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

• John 17:3

  This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

• John 17:4

  I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

• John 17:5

  Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

• John 17:6

  I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

• John 17:7

  Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,

• John 17:8

  for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

• John 17:9

  I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

• John 17:10

  All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

• John 17:11

  I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

• John 17:12

  While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

• John 17:13

  But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

• John 17:14

  I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

• John 17:15

  I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

• John 17:16

  They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

• John 17:17

  Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

• John 17:18

  As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

• John 17:19

  For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

• John 17:20

  Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,

• John 17:21

  that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

• John 17:22

  The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;

• John 17:23

  I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

• John 17:24

  Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

• John 17:25

  Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

• John 17:26

  I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

• Acts 12:5

  Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

• Acts 12:15

  They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

• 2 Corinthians 12:8

  Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

• 2 Corinthians 12:9

  He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

• Galatians 1:8

  But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

• Galatians 1:9

  As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:17

  Pray without ceasing.

• 2 Timothy 4:14

  Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

• 2 Timothy 4:15

  of whom you also must beware; for he greatly opposed our words.

• Hebrews 4:16

  Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.