100 Bible Verses About Supplication

And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.

Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:

And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the Lord.

And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.

I prayed therefore unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:

I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation.

That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!

Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.

Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until even, and asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.)

Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,

O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O Lord, quicken me according to thy judgment.

In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, saying,

O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.

Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:

And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the Lord, even burnt offerings morning and evening.

Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.

If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:

Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

If thy people go out to war against their enemies by the way that thou shalt send them, and they pray unto thee toward this city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name;

And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

But when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.

I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

Arise, O Lord, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.

It may be the Lord thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.

Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.