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Prayers of the Bible

How the people of Scripture actually prayed — Hannah, Solomon, Daniel, Jonah, and Jesus Himself.

14 items · 206 verses · 27 m 48 s of audio ready (206 of 206 verses, voice “Rooted Narrator”)

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    Moses: show me Your glory range
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    Hannah: my heart rejoices range
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    Solomon dedicates the temple range
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    Jehoshaphat: we do not know what to do range
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    Ezra's confession range
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    Nehemiah hears the news range
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    Create in me a clean heart range
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    Daniel prays for his people range
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    Jonah, from inside the fish range
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    Habakkuk: yet I will rejoice range
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    The Lord's Prayer range
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    Jesus prays for His own range
  13. 13
    Gethsemane range
  14. 14
    That you would be filled to the measure range

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Reading order — first 40 of 206

  1. Exodus.33.12
    12Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’
  2. 13Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”
  3. 14And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
  4. 15“If Your Presence does not go with us,” Moses replied, “do not lead us up from here.
  5. 16For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
  6. 17So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”
  7. 18Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.”
  8. 19“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
  9. 20But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”
  10. 21The LORD continued, “There is a place near Me where you are to stand upon a rock,
  11. 22and when My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
  12. 23Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”
  13. 1 Samuel.2.1
    1At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the LORD; my horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.
  14. 2There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
  15. 3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
  16. 4The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.
  17. 5The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
  18. 6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
  19. 7The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
  20. 8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
  21. 9He guards the steps of His faithful ones, but the wicked perish in darkness; for by his own strength shall no man prevail.
  22. 10Those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder from heaven against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth and will give power to His king. He will exalt the horn of His anointed.”
  23. 1 Kings.8.22
    22Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
  24. 23and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
  25. 24You have kept Your promise to Your servant, my father David. What You spoke with Your mouth You have fulfilled with Your hand this day.
  26. 25Therefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
  27. 26And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
  28. 27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
  29. 28Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
  30. 29May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
  31. 30Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
  32. 31When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,
  33. 32then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
  34. 33When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,
  35. 34then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.
  36. 35When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
  37. 36then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
  38. 37When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
  39. 38then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
  40. 39be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—