Quotes about Prayer
I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”
— Isaiah 56:7
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.
— Isaiah 58:4
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,
— Isaiah 58:9
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
— Isaiah 62:6
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
— Isaiah 64:1
Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
— Isaiah 64:9
After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
— Isaiah 64:12
Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
— Isaiah 65:24
As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
— Jeremiah 7:16
Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
— Jeremiah 11:12
As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
— Jeremiah 11:14
This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
— Jeremiah 14:1