1 Kings 8:28
Hebrew Text— 1 Kings 8:28Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you today;
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but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
Pray without ceasing.
rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
Yahweh didn’t say that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the sky; but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.
Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
The smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.
The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at evening;
Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.
But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.
He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.
As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli saw her mouth.
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.
But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
For through the anger of Yahweh, this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.
Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.
Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.
May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us.
In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel.
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”
yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
David said, “Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go! Yahweh will be with you.”
Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, Yahweh my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you;
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.
You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.
Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?