Psalms 130:2

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

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

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.

“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive, to the prayer that is made in this place.

In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence.

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

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.

I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and cause you to return to your own land.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—

He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.

Against the wall of the house, he built floors all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the inner sanctuary; and he made side rooms all around.

that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place where you have said that you would put your name; to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ”

For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the supplication of your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they cry to 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;

Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.

I said to Yahweh, “You are my God.” Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.

Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

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