How Job, David, Solomon and Our Lord Prayed

"My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;" (Job 16:16 KJV)

"Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure." (Job 16:17 KJV)

"O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place." (Job 16:18 KJV)

"Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high." (Job 16:19 KJV)

"My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God." (Job 16:20 KJV)

"I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me." (Psa 69:2 KJV)

"I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God." (Psa 69:3 KJV)

"They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away." (Psa 69:4 KJV)

"O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee." (Psa 69:5 KJV)

"Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel." (Psa 69:6 KJV)

"Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face." (Psa 69:7 KJV)

"I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children." (Psa 69:8 KJV)

"For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me." (Psa 69:9 KJV)

"When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach." (Psa 69:10 KJV)

"I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them." (Psa 69:11 KJV)

"They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards." (Psa 69:12 KJV)

"But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation." (Psa 69:13 KJV)

"Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters." (Psa 69:14 KJV)

"Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me." (Psa 69:15 KJV)

"Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies." (Psa 69:16 KJV)

"And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily." (Psa 69:17 KJV)

"Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies." (Psa 69:18 KJV)

"Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee." (Psa 69:19 KJV)

"Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none." (Psa 69:20 KJV)

"They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink." (Psa 69:21 KJV)

"Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap." (Psa 69:22 KJV)

"Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake." (Psa 69:23 KJV)

"Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them." (Psa 69:24 KJV)

"Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents." (Psa 69:25 KJV)

"For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded." (Psa 69:26 KJV)

"Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness." (Psa 69:27 KJV)

"Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous." (Psa 69:28 KJV)

"But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high." (Psa 69:29 KJV)

"I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving." (Psa 69:30 KJV)

"This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs." (Psa 69:31 KJV)

"The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God." (Psa 69:32 KJV)

"For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners." (Psa 69:33 KJV)

"Let the heaven and earth praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein." (Psa 69:34 KJV)

"For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession." (Psa 69:35 KJV)

"The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein." (Psa 69:36 KJV)

"And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him." (Luke 22:39 KJV)

"And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation." (Luke 22:40 KJV)

"And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed," (Luke 22:41 KJV)

"Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." (Luke 22:42 KJV)

"And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him." (Luke 22:43 KJV)

"And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." (Luke 22:44 KJV)

"And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow," (Luke 22:45 KJV)

"And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation." (Luke 22:46 KJV)

"If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;" (2 Chr 7:13 KJV)

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (2 Chr 7:14 KJV)

"Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place." (2 Chr 7:15 KJV)

"For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually." (2 Chr 7:16 KJV)

"And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;" (2 Chr 7:17 KJV)

"Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel." (2 Chr 7:18 KJV)

"But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;" (2 Chr 7:19 KJV)

"Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations." (2 Chr 7:20 KJV)

"And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?" (2 Chr 7:21 KJV)

"And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them." (2 Chr 7:22 KJV)

Last Updated on April 21, 1998 by Khomer Beaty