What Does the Bible Say?

As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)

Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

yet my hands are free of violence and my prayer is pure.

So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”

Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.

The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.

Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer— it comes from lips free of deceit.

Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.

Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.

Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.

O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.

But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.

Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld from me His loving devotion!

But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

Thus conclude the prayers of David son of Jesse.

O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?

O LORD God of Hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and attend to my plea for mercy.

May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry.