Quotes about Prayer
Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
— Jeremiah 33:3
Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”
— Jeremiah 36:7
Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!”
— Jeremiah 37:3
then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
— Jeremiah 38:26
Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can see with your own eyes.
— Jeremiah 42:2
Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”
— Jeremiah 42:3
“I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will surely pray to the LORD your God as you request, and I will tell you everything that the LORD answers; I will not withhold a word from you.”
— Jeremiah 42:4
Jeremiah told them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition:
— Jeremiah 42:9
For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’
— Jeremiah 42:20
and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
— Jeremiah 51:62
Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.
— Lamentations 1:22
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
— Lamentations 2:18