For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;

The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came to his ears.

\5:2\Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.

\22:23\You who have fear of the Lord, give him praise; all you seed of Jacob, give him glory; go in fear of him, all you seed of Israel.

Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

\55:16\As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.

\62:7\In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.

A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

\102:16\When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;

But when their cry came to his ears, he had pity on their trouble:

And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.

I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer.

He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.

Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.

I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

O people, living in Zion, at Jerusalem, your weeping will be ended; he will certainly have mercy on you at the sound of your cry; when it comes to his ear, he will give you an answer.

The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?

Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.

Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.

But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.

And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.

Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:

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Truly I say to you, Whatever things are fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.

Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

For where two or three are come together in my name, there am I among them.

And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done.

And all things, whatever you make request for in prayer, having faith, you will get.

And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done.

For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.

And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.

For to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire; and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:

But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.

And whatever request you make in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may have glory in the Son.

If you make any request to me in my name, I will do it.

If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

And on that day you will put no questions to me. Truly I say to you, Whatever request you make to the Father, he will give it to you in my name.

Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.

Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,

And being certain that God was able to keep his word.

And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.

Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,

With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

Keep on with your prayers.

It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.

Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

And without faith it is not possible to be well-pleasing to him, for it is necessary for anyone who comes to God to have the belief that God is, and that he is a rewarder of all those who make a serious search for him.

Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.

Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in his eyes, he will give ear to us:

And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.