חַנּוֹת

It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we didn’t take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them; otherwise you would now be guilty.’ ”

He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’

“When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;

yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’

Let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he may maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day requires;

Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, “Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.

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.

“If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;

yet if they come to their senses in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;’

He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews.

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth.

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

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

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I made supplication to the Lord:

Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.”

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

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.

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.

You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.

May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?”

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.