Quotes about Pleading

Hearken to the voice of my supplications," is rendered by the apostle Paul in which place alone in the Scripture that word is used. Originally it signifies a bough or olive-branch wrapped about with wool or bays, or something of the like nature, which those carried in their hands and lifted up who were suppliants unto others for the obtaining of peace or the averting of their displeasure.

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Hear now what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.

During the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and pleading with him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

And you returned and wept before the LORD, but He would not listen to your voice or give ear to you.

In your weakness, worry, doubt, and fear, he pleads to the Father in your defense.

Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

Later the other virgins arrived and said, ‘Lord, lord, open the door for us!’