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Prayer: Pleas offered In Genesis 32:9–12

Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’ / I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps. / Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Exodus 32:11–13

But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? / Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people. / Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Exodus 33:13

Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Numbers 14:13–18

But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them. / And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. / If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Numbers 16:22

But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Deuteronomy 3:24, 25

“O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours? / Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Deuteronomy 9:18, 25–29

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger. / So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you. / But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Joshua 7:8, 9

O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies? / When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

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Prayer: Pleas offered In 2 Samuel 7:25–29

And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised, / so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You. / For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In 1 Kings 8:25, 26, 59, 60

Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’ / And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David. / And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,

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Prayer: Pleas offered In 1 Kings 18:36, 37

At the time of the evening sacrifice, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and that I am Your servant and have done all these things at Your command. / Answer me, O LORD! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again.”

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Prayer: Pleas offered In 2 Kings 19:15–19

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. / Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God. / Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In 2 Chronicles 14:11

Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Nehemiah 1:8, 9

Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, / but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Nehemiah 9:32

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.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 4:1

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 9:19, 20

Rise up, O LORD, do not let man prevail; let the nations be judged in Your presence. / Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 25:6

Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 27:9

Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 31:3

For You are my rock and my fortress; lead me and guide me for the sake of Your name.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 38:16

For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 69:6, 13, 16

May those who hope in You not be ashamed through me, O Lord GOD of Hosts; may those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel. / But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation. / Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 71:18

Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 74:10, 11, 18–23

How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever? / Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them! / Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 79:10–12

Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants. / May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death. / Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 83:1, 2, 18

A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God. / See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads. / May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 86:1–5, 17

A prayer of David. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. / Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You. / Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I call to You all day long.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 89:49–51

Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David? / Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people— / how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 106:47

Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 109:21–27

But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for the sake of Your name; deliver me by the goodness of Your loving devotion. / For I am poor and needy; my heart is wounded within me. / I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 115:1, 2

Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness. / Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 119:38, 42, 43, 49, 73, 94, 116, 124, 145, 146, 149, 153, 173–176

Establish Your word to Your servant, to produce reverence for You. / Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word. / Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Psalm 143:11, 12

For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble. / And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Isaiah 37:15–20

And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: / “O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. / Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Isaiah 63:17–19

Why, O LORD, do You make us stray from Your ways and harden our hearts from fearing You? Return, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage. / For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary. / We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Jeremiah 14:21

For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Jeremiah 18:20, 21

Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them. / Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Lamentations 3:56–63

You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.” / You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.” / You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.

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Prayer: Pleas offered In Joel 2:17

Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

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