They repay my love with accusations, but I continue to pray.

You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

This is a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet:

You hear prayers; all people approach you.

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

A prayer of David. Lord, consider my just cause! Pay attention to my cry for help! Listen to the prayer I sincerely offer!

By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God.

A prayer of David. Listen O Lord! Answer me! For I am oppressed and needy.

A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our protector through all generations!

The Lord says, “I saw the prophets of Samaria doing something that was disgusting. They prophesied in the name of the god Baal and led my people Israel astray.

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

The prayer of an oppressed man, as he grows faint and pours out his lament before the Lord. O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!

A well-written song by David, when he was in the cave; a prayer. To the Lord I cry out; to the Lord I plead for mercy.

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”

I will bring them to my holy mountain; I will make them happy in the temple where people pray to me. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my temple will be known as a temple where all nations may pray.”