Luke 11:10

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.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

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.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

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.”

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

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

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, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

where then is my hope? as for my hope, who will see it?

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.

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

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.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

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

‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli saw her mouth.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

You who hear prayer, all men will come to you.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

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.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

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?”

Then Yahweh was jealous for his land, And had pity on his people.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

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

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said 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.

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

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.

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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.

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

For that man shouldn’t think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”

“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.

As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left, and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I didn’t find him. I called him, but he didn’t answer.

I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—