What the Bible says prayer is:
HOUSE OF PRAYER:
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia States:
Prayer
prâr
δέησις, déēsis, προσευχή, proseuchḗ, ἔντευξις, énteuxis; for an excellent discussion of the meaning of these see Thayer's Lexicon, p. 126, under the word δέησις, déēsis; the chief verbs are εὔχομαι, eúchomai, προσεύχομαι, proseúchomai, and δέομαι, déomai, especially in Luke and Acts; αἰτέω, aitéō, "to ask a favor" distinguished from ἐρωτάω, erōtáō, "to ask a question," is found occasionally
Hebrews 11:6:
But without belief it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to Elohim has to believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him.
Psalms 30:2:
יהוה
my Elohim, I have cried to You, And You have healed me.
2 Corinthians 12:8:
Concerning this I pleaded with the Master three times to take it away from me.
and on the other "prayers" like that of Hannah,
1 Samuel 2:1-10
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And Ḥannah prayed and said, "My heart rejoices in יהוה, my horn has been high in יהוה. My mouth is opened wide over my enemies, for I have rejoiced in Your deliverance.
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"There is no one set-apart like יהוה, for there is no one besides You, and there is no rock like our Elohim.
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"Do not multiply words so proudly, proudly; let no arrogance come from your mouth, for יהוה is an Ěl of knowledge, and by Him deeds are weighed.
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"Bows of the mighty are broken, and those who stumble shall be girded with strength.
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"The satisfied have hired themselves out for bread, and the hungry have ceased. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children pines away.
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"יהוה puts to death and makes alive, He brings down to the grave and raises up.
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"יהוה makes poor and makes rich, He brings low and lifts up.
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"He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the dunghill, to sit with princes, and make them inherit a throne of esteem. For the supports of the earth belong to יהוה, and He has set the world upon them.
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"He guards the feet of His kind ones, but the wrong are silent in darkness, for man does not become mighty by power.
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"Those who oppose יהוה are shattered, from the heavens He thunders against them. יהוה judges the ends of the earth, and gives strength to His sovereign, and exalts the horn of His anointed."
Ephesians 3:14-21
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For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Master יהושע Messiah,
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from whom all fatherhood1 in the heavens and earth is named, Footnote: 1Or lineage, or paternal descent.
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in order that He might give you, according to the riches of His esteem by power, to be strengthened in the inner man, through His Spirit,
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that the Messiah might dwell in your hearts1 through belief – having become rooted and grounded in love, Footnote: 1Gal. 2:20.
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in order that you might be strengthened to firmly grasp, with all the set-apart ones, what is the width and length and depth and height,
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to know the love of Messiah which surpasses knowledge, in order that you might be filled to all the completeness of Elohim.
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And to Him who is able to do exceedingly above what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,
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to Him be esteem in the assembly by Messiah יהושע unto all generations, for ever and ever. Amĕn.
1. In the Old Testament:
Genesis 4:26
26:
And to Shĕth, to him also a son was born. And he called his name Enosh. Then it was begun to call on the Name of יהוה1. Footnote: 1The first record of "calling on the Name of יהוה"
Genesis 12:8
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And from there he moved to the mountain east of Bĕyth Ěl, and he pitched his tent, with Bĕyth Ěl on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there an altar to יהוה, and called on the Name of יהוה.
Genesis 21:33
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And he planted a tamarisk tree in Be’ĕrsheḇa, and there called on the Name of יהוה, the Everlasting Ěl.
Prayer is naive, familiar and direct:
Genesis 15:2
2:
And Aḇram said, "Master יהוה, what would You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliʽezer of Damascus?"
Genesis 17:18
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And Aḇraham said to Elohim, "Oh, let Yishmaʽĕl live before You!"
Genesis 18:23
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And Aḇraham drew near and said, "Would You also destroy the righteous with the wrong?
Genesis 24:12
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And he said, "יהוה, Elohim of my master Aḇraham, please cause her to meet before me this day, and show kindness to my master Aḇraham.
It is associated with sacrifice:
Genesis 12:8
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And from there he moved to the mountain east of Bĕyth Ěl, and he pitched his tent, with Bĕyth Ěl on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there an altar to יהוה, and called on the Name of יהוה.
Genesis 13:4
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to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Aḇram called on the Name of יהוה.
Genesis 26:25
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And he built an altar there, and called on the Name of יהוה, and he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Yitsḥaq dug a well there.
Genesis 28:20-22
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And Yaʽaqoḇ made a vow, saying, "Seeing Elohim is with me, and has kept me in this way that I am going, and has given me bread to eat and a garment to put on –
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when I have returned to my father’s house in peace, and יהוה has been my Elohim,
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then this stone which I have set as a standing column shall be Elohim’s house, and of all that You give me, I shall certainly give a tenth to You."
Exodus 3:4
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And יהוה saw that he turned aside to see, and Elohim called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Mosheh! Mosheh!" And he said, "Here I am."
Numbers 11:11-15
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so Mosheh said to יהוה, "Why have You done evil to Your servant? And why have I not found favour in Your eyes, to put the burden of all these people on me?
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"Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the foster father carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?
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"Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat.’
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"I am unable to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.
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"And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!"
Judges 6:13
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And Giḏʽon said to Him, "O my master, if יהוה is with us, why has all this come upon us? And where are all His wonders which our fathers related to us, saying, ‘Did not יהוה bring us up from Mitsrayim?’ But now יהוה has left us and given us into the hands of Miḏyan."
Judges 11:30-31
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And Yiphtaḥ made a vow to יהוה, and said, "If You give the children of Ammon into my hands,
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then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall belong to יהוה, and I shall offer it up as a burnt offering."
1 Samuel 1:11
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And she made a vow and said, "O יהוה of hosts, if You would indeed look on the affliction of your female servant and remember me, and not forget your female servant, but shall give your female servant a male child, then I shall give him to יהוה all the days of his life, and let no razor come upon his head."
2 Samuel 15:8
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"For your servant vowed a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If יהוה indeed brings me back to Yerushalayim, then I shall serve יהוה.’ "
Psalms 66:13-14
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I enter Your house with burnt offerings; I complete my vows to You,
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That which my lips have uttered And my mouth spoke in my distress.
Matthew 6:5
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"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the congregations and on the corners of the streets, to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
Matthew 23:14
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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you eat up widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. Because of this you shall receive greater judgment.
Acts 3:1
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And Kĕpha and Yoḥanan were going up to the Set-apart Place at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Acts 16:13
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And on the Sabbath day we went outside the city by a river, where there used to be prayer. And having sat down we were speaking to the women who met there.
Deuteronomy 21:1-9
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"When anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess, and it is not known who smote him,
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then your elders and your judges shall go out, and they shall measure the distance from the slain man to the cities round about.
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"And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke,
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and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, which is neither ploughed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi.
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"And the priests, the sons of Lĕwi, shall come near, for יהוה your Elohim has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the Name of יהוה, and by their mouth every strife and every stroke is tried.
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"And let all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi.
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"And they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.
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‘O יהוה, forgive Your people Yisra’ĕl, whom You have redeemed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of Your people Yisra’ĕl.’ And the blood-guilt shall be pardoned to them.
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"Thus you purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst when you do what is right in the eyes of יהוה.
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
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"And it shall be, when you come into the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,
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that you shall take some of the first of all the fruits of the soil which you bring from your land that יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and shall put it in a basket and go to the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell there.
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"And you shall come to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I shall declare today to יהוה your Elohim that I have come to the land which יהוה swore to our fathers to give us.’
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"And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and place it before the altar of יהוה your Elohim.
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"And you shall answer and say before יהוה your Elohim, ‘My father was a perishing Aramean, and he went down to Mitsrayim and sojourned there with few men. And there he became a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.
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‘But the Mitsrites did evil to us, and afflicted us, and imposed hard labour on us.
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‘Then we cried out to יהוה Elohim of our fathers, and יהוה heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression.
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‘And יהוה brought us out of Mitsrayim with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, with great fear and with signs and wonders.
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‘And He brought us to this place and has given us this land, "a land flowing with milk and honey."
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‘And now, see, I have brought the first-fruits of the land which You, O יהוה, have given me.’ Then you shall place it before יהוה your Elohim, and bow down before יהוה your Elohim,
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and shall rejoice in all the good which יהוה your Elohim has given to you and your house, you and the Lĕwite and the stranger who is among you.
Deuteronomy 21:5
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"And the priests, the sons of Lĕwi, shall come near, for יהוה your Elohim has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the Name of יהוה, and by their mouth every strife and every stroke is tried.
Deuteronomy 26:3
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"And you shall come to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I shall declare today to יהוה your Elohim that I have come to the land which יהוה swore to our fathers to give us.’
Exodus 32:11-13
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But Mosheh pleaded with יהוה his Elohim, and said, "יהוה, why does Your wrath burn against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Mitsrayim with great power and with a strong hand?
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"Why should the Mitsrites speak, and say, ‘For evil He brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from the heat of Your wrath, and relent from this evil to Your people.
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"Remember Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Yisra’ĕl, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I increase your seed like the stars of the heavens. And all this land that I have spoken of I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’ "
1 Samuel 7:5-13
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And Shemu’ĕl said, "Gather all Yisra’ĕl to Mitspah and let me pray to יהוה for you."
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And they gathered to Mitspah and drew water, and poured it out before יהוה. And they fasted that day, and said there, "We have sinned against יהוה." And Shemu’ĕl rightly ruled the children of Yisra’ĕl at Mitspah.
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And when the Philistines heard that the children of Yisra’ĕl had gathered together at Mitspah, the princes of the Philistines went up against Yisra’ĕl. And the children of Yisra’ĕl heard of it, and were afraid of the Philistines.
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And the children of Yisra’ĕl said to Shemu’ĕl, "Do not cease to cry out to יהוה our Elohim for us, that He would save us from the hand of the Philistines."
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And Shemu’ĕl took a suckling lamb and offered it as a burnt offering, completely, to יהוה. And Shemu’ĕl cried out to יהוה for Yisra’ĕl, and יהוה answered him.
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And it came to be, as Shemu’ĕl offered up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Yisra’ĕl. But יהוה thundered with a great noise on that day on the Philistines, and troubled them, and they were smitten before Yisra’ĕl.
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And the men of Yisra’ĕl went out from Mitspah and pursued the Philistines, and drove them back as far as below Bĕyth Kar.
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And Shemu’ĕl took a stone and set it up between Mitspah and Shĕn, and called its name Eḇen Haʽĕzer, saying, "Thus far יהוה has helped us."
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Thus the Philistines were humbled, and no longer came into the border of Yisra’ĕl. And the hand of יהוה was against the Philistines all the days of Shemu’ĕl.
1 Samuel 12:23
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"Also, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against יהוה in ceasing to pray for you, but I shall teach you the good and straight way.
Exodus 40:1-38
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And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
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"On the first day of the first month, you are to raise up the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting,
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and shall put in it the ark of the Witness, and screen the ark with the veil.
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"And you shall bring in the table and arrange what belongs on it, and bring in the lampstand and light its lamps.
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"And you shall set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the Witness, and put up the covering of the door to the Dwelling Place.
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"And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting,
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and shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
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"And you shall set up the courtyard all around, and shall place the covering of the courtyard gate,
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and shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the Dwelling Place and all that is in it, and shall set it and all its utensils apart, and it shall be set-apart.
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"And you shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its utensils, and set the altar apart, and the altar shall be most set-apart.
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"And you shall anoint the basin and its stand, and set it apart.
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"And you shall bring Aharon and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
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"And you shall put the set-apart garments on Aharon, and anoint him and set him apart to serve as priest to Me.
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"And you shall bring his sons and put long shirts on them,
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and shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, and they shall serve as priests to Me. And their anointing shall be for them an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."
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And Mosheh did according to all that יהוה had commanded him, so he did.
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And it came to be in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the Dwelling Place was raised up.
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And Mosheh raised up the Dwelling Place and placed its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its columns,
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and spread the tent over the Dwelling Place and put the covering of the tent on top of it, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
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And he took the Witness and put it into the ark, and he put the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the lid of atonement on top of the ark,
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and brought the ark into the Dwelling Place, and placed the veil of the covering to screen off the ark of the Witness, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
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And he put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the Dwelling Place, outside the veil,
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and set the bread in order upon it before יהוה, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
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And he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the Dwelling Place,
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and lit the lamps before יהוה, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
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And he put the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting in front of the veil,
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and burned sweet incense on it, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
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And he set up the covering to the door of the Dwelling Place.
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And he put the altar of burnt offering before the door of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
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And he put the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein for washing.
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And Mosheh, and Aharon, and his sons washed their hands and their feet with water from it,
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as they went into the Tent of Meeting, and as they came near the altar. They would wash, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
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And he raised up the courtyard all around the Dwelling Place and the altar, and placed the covering of the courtyard gate. And Mosheh completed the work.
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And the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the esteem of יהוה filled the Dwelling Place.
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And Mosheh was not able to come into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud dwelt on it, and the esteem of יהוה filled the Dwelling Place.
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And when the cloud was taken up from above the Dwelling Place, the children of Yisra’ĕl went onward in all their journeys.
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But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up.
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For the cloud of יהוה was on the Dwelling Place by day, and fire was on it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Yisra’ĕl, in all their journeys.
1 Kings 8:1-66
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Then Shelomoh assembled the elders of Yisra’ĕl and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Yisra’ĕl, to Sovereign Shelomoh in Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the covenant of יהוה from the City of Dawiḏ, which is Tsiyon.
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And all the men of Yisra’ĕl assembled to Sovereign Shelomoh at the festival in the month of Ěythanim, which is the seventh month.
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And all the elders of Yisra’ĕl came, and the priests took up the ark,
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and brought up the ark of יהוה, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the set-apart utensils that were in the Tent. And the priests and the Lĕwites brought them up,
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and Sovereign Shelomoh, and all the congregation of Yisra’ĕl who had assembled with him, were with him before the ark, slaughtering so many sheep and cattle, that they could not be counted or numbered.
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And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of יהוה to its place, into the Speaking Place of the House, to the Most Set-apart Place, under the wings of the keruḇim,
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for the keruḇim spread two wings over the place of the ark, and the keruḇim covered over the ark and its poles.
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And the poles extended so that the ends of the poles were seen from the set-apart place, in front of the Speaking Place, but they were not seen from outside. And they are there to this day.
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There was naught in the ark, only the two tablets of stone which Mosheh put there at Ḥorĕḇ, where יהוה made a covenant with the children of Yisra’ĕl, when they came out of the land of Mitsrayim.
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And it came to be, when the priests came out of the Set-apart Place, that the cloud filled the House of יהוה,
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so that the priests were unable to stand and perform the service because of the cloud, for the esteem of יהוה filled the House of יהוה.
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And Shelomoh said, "יהוה has said He would dwell in the dark cloud.
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I have indeed built You an exalted house, an established place for You to dwell in forever."
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And the sovereign turned around and blessed all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl, while all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl was standing.
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And he said, "Blessed be יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, who spoke with His mouth to my father Dawiḏ, and with His hand has filled it, saying,
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‘Since the day I brought My people Yisra’ĕl out of Mitsrayim, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Yisra’ĕl in which to build a house for My Name to be there, but I chose Dawiḏ to be over My people Yisra’ĕl.’
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"And it was in the heart of my father Dawiḏ to build a house for the Name of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl.
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"But יהוה said to my father Dawiḏ, ‘Because it has been in your heart to build a house for My Name, you did well that it was in your heart.
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‘Only, you do not build the house, but your son, who is coming from your loins, he does build the house for My Name.’
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"Now יהוה has established His word which He spoke, and I have been raised up instead of my father Dawiḏ, and sit on the throne of Yisra’ĕl, as יהוה promised, and built a house for the Name of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl,
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and have appointed there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of יהוה which He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim."
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And Shelomoh stood before the altar of יהוה in front of all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl, and spread out his hands toward the heavens,
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and said, "יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, there is no Elohim in the heavens above or on earth below like You, guarding Your covenant and kindness with Your servants who walk before You with all their heart,
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who has guarded that which You did promise Your servant Dawiḏ my father. Indeed, You have both spoken with Your mouth and have filled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
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"And now, יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, guard what You promised Your servant Dawiḏ my father, saying, ‘There is not to cease a man of yours before Me, sitting on the throne of Yisra’ĕl – only, if your sons guard their way, to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.’
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"And now, O Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, please let Your word come true which You have spoken to Your servant Dawiḏ my father.
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"For is it true: Elohim dwells on the earth? See, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens are unable to contain You, how much less this House which I have built!
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"Yet, shall You turn to the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O יהוה my Elohim, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today?
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"For Your eyes to be open toward this House night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name is there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.
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"Then, shall You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Yisra’ĕl when they pray toward this place, when You hear in Your dwelling place, in the heavens? And shall You hear, and forgive?
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"If anyone sins against his neighbour, and he has lifted up an oath on him, to cause him to swear, and comes and swears before Your altar in this House,
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then hear in the heavens, and act and rightly rule Your servants, declaring the wrongdoer wrong, bringing his way on his head, and declaring the righteous right by giving him according to his righteousness.
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"When Your people Yisra’ĕl are smitten before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, and they shall turn back to You and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication to You in this House,
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then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your people Yisra’ĕl, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.
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"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,
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then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Yisra’ĕl – for You teach them the good way in which they should walk – and shall give rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
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"When there is scarcity of food in the land; when there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locusts, grasshoppers; when their enemy distresses them in the land of their cities; any plague, any sickness,
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whatever prayer, whatever supplication made by anyone of all Your people Yisra’ĕl, each knowing the plague of his own heart, and shall spread out his hands toward this House,
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then hear in the heavens, Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and render unto everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know. Because You – You alone – know the hearts of all the sons of men,
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so that they fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.
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"Also, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Yisra’ĕl, but has come from a far land for Your Name’s sake –
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since they hear of Your great Name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm – and he shall come and pray toward this House,
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hear in the heavens Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, so that all peoples of the earth know Your Name and fear You, as do Your people Yisra’ĕl, and know that this House which I have built is called by Your Name.
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"When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, in the way that You send them, and they shall pray to יהוה toward the city which You have chosen and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,
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then shall You hear in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause?
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"When they sin against You – for there is no one who does not sin – and You become enraged with them and give them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;
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and they shall turn back unto their heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and shall turn, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and acted crookedly, we have committed wrong,’
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and they shall turn back to You with all their heart and with all their being in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and shall pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the House which I have built for Your Name,
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then shall You hear in the heavens Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause,
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and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You? And give them compassion before those who took them captive, and they shall have compassion on them.
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‘For they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Mitsrayim, out of the iron furnace.
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"Let Your eyes be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Yisra’ĕl, to listen to them whenever they call to You.
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"For You have separated them unto Yourself for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth, as You spoke by the hand of Your servant Mosheh, when You brought our fathers out of Mitsrayim, O Master יהוה."
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And it came to be, when Shelomoh had ended praying all this prayer and supplication to יהוה, that he rose up from before the altar of יהוה, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to the heavens.
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And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl with a loud voice, saying,
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"Blessed be יהוה, who has given rest to His people Yisra’ĕl, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good word, which He promised through His servant Mosheh.
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"יהוה our Elohim is with us as He was with our fathers – He does not leave us nor forsake us –
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to incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to guard His commands and His laws and His right- rulings, which He commanded our fathers.
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"And let these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before יהוה, be near יהוה our Elohim day and night, to maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Yisra’ĕl, the matter of each day in its day,
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so that all the peoples of the earth might know that יהוה is Elohim, there is no one else.
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"Let your heart therefore be perfect to יהוה our Elohim, to walk in His laws and guard His commands, as at this day."
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And the sovereign and all Yisra’ĕl with him made slaughterings before יהוה.
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And Shelomoh brought peace offerings, which he slaughtered to יהוה, twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. Thus the sovereign and all the children of Yisra’ĕl dedicated the House of יהוה.
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On that day the sovereign set apart the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the House of יהוה, for there he made burnt offerings, and the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before יהוה was too small to contain the burnt offerings, and the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
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And Shelomoh at that time observed the Festival, and all Yisra’ĕl with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Ḥamath to the wadi of Mitsrayim, before יהוה our Elohim, seven days and seven days – fourteen days.
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On the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the sovereign, and went to their tents rejoicing and glad of heart for all the goodness that יהוה had done for His servant Dawiḏ, and for Yisra’ĕl His people.
Exodus 34:34
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But whenever Mosheh went in before יהוה to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. And when he came out he spoke to the children of Yisra’ĕl what he had been commanded,
Deuteronomy 34:10
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And since then no prophet has arisen in Yisra’ĕl like Mosheh, whom יהוה knew face to face,
2 Samuel 7:27
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"For You, O יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, have revealed this to Your servant, saying, ‘I build you a house.’ Therefore Your servant has taken heart to pray this prayer to You.
are to be numbered among the prophets - but he does so in virtue of his office, and on the ground especially of his possession of the Spirit and his intercessory function:
Ezekiel 2:2
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And the Spirit entered into me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet. And I heard Him who was speaking to me.
Jeremiah 14:15
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"Therefore thus said יהוה concerning the prophets who prophesy in My Name, whom I did not send, and who say, ‘Sword and scarcity of food shall not be in this land.’ ‘By sword and scarcity of food those prophets shall be consumed!
Ezra 7:27
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Blessed be יהוה Elohim of our fathers, who has put this in the sovereign’s heart, to embellish the House of יהוה which is in Yerushalayim,
Ezra 8:23
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So we fasted and prayed to our Elohim for this, and He answered our prayer.
Nehemiah 2:4
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And the sovereign said to me, "What are you asking for?" Then I prayed to the Elohim of the heavens,
Nehemiah 4:4
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"Hear, O our Elohim, for we have become despised. And turn back their reproach on their own heads, and give them as a prey in a land of captivity!
Nehemiah 4:9
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But we prayed to our Elohim, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Daniel 6:10
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And Dani’ĕl, when he knew that the writing was signed, went home and in his upper room with his windows open toward Yerushalayim he knelt down on his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before his Elah, as he had done before.
Ezra 9:6-15
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and said, "O my Elohim, I am too ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, my Elohim, for our crookednesses have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.
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"Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been very guilty, and for our crookednesses we, our sovereigns, and our priests have been given into the hand of the sovereigns of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to shame of faces, as it is this day.
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"But now, for a short while, favour has been shown from יהוה our Elohim, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His set-apart place, that our Elohim might enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
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"For we were slaves, but in our bondage our Elohim did not forsake us, and extended kindness to us in the presence of the sovereigns of Persia, to revive us, to raise up the House of our Elohim, to restore its ruins, and to give us a wall in Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim.
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"And now, O our Elohim, what do we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commands,
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which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are going in to possess is a land unclean through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it, from one end to another, by their uncleanness.
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‘And now, do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons. And do not seek their peace or wealth ever, so that you are strong, and shall eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.’
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"And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our Elohim have held back the rod upon our crookednesses, and have given us such deliverance as this,
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should we turn back, to break Your commands, and join in marriage with the people of these abominations? Would You not be enraged with us until You had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant or survivor?
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"O יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. See, we are before You, in our guilt, for there is no one to stand before You concerning this!"
Nehemiah 1:5-11
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and I said, "I pray, יהוה Elohim of the heavens, O great and awesome Ěl, guarding the covenant and kindness with those who love You, and with those guarding Your commands,
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please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, for the children of Yisra’ĕl Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Yisra’ĕl which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.
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"We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not guarded the commands, nor the laws, nor the right-rulings which You commanded Your servant Mosheh.
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"Please remember the word that You commanded Your servant Mosheh, saying, ‘If you trespass, I shall scatter you among the peoples,
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but if you shall turn back to Me, and guard My commands and do them, though you were cast out to the end of the heavens, I shall gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen, to make My Name dwell there.’
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"And they are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand.
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"O יהוה, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who delight to fear Your Name. And let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man." For I was cupbearer to the sovereign.
Nehemiah 9:5-38
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Then the Lĕwites, Yĕshua and Qaḏmi’ĕl, Bani, Ḥashaḇneyah, Shĕrĕḇyah, Hoḏiyah, Sheḇanyah, Pethaḥyah, said, "Rise, bless יהוה your Elohim forever and ever! And let them bless Your esteemed Name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
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"You are יהוה, You alone. You have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that are on it, the seas and all that are in them, and You give life to them all. And the host of the heavens are bowing themselves to You.
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"You are יהוה, the Elohim who chose Aḇram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Aḇraham,
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and found his heart trustworthy before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Kenaʽanites, the Ḥittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Yeḇusites, and the Girgashites – to give it to his seed. And You have established Your words, for You are righteous,
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and saw the affliction of our fathers in Mitsrayim, and heard their cry by the Sea of Reeds,
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and gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land. For You knew that they acted proudly against them. And You made a Name for Yourself, as it is this day.
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"And You split the sea before them, and they passed over into the midst of the sea on the dry land. And their pursuers You threw into the deep as a stone into the mighty waters.
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"And You led them by day with a cloudy column, and by night with a column of fire, to give them light in the way they were to go.
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"And You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them straight right-rulings and Torah of truth1, good laws and commands. Footnote: 1Traditionally rendered laws of truth, of which we also read in Mal. 2:6, while it is rendered in Rom. 2:20 as the truth in the law.
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"And You made known to them Your set-apart Sabbath, and You commanded them commands and laws and Torot1 , by the hand of Mosheh Your servant. Footnote: 1Torot - plural of Torah - teaching.
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"And You gave them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and brought them water out of the rock for their thirst, and said to them to go in to possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
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"But they and our fathers acted proudly, and hardened their necks, and did not obey Your commands.
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"And they refused to obey, and they remembered not Your wonders that You did among them, and hardened their necks, and in their rebellion they appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a forgiving Eloah, showing favour, and compassionate, patient, and of great kindness, and did not forsake them.
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"Even when they made a moulded calf for themselves, and said, ‘This is your mighty one that brought you up out of Mitsrayim,’ and worked great blasphemies,
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yet You, in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. The column of the cloud did not turn away from them by day to lead them on the way, nor the column of fire by night to give them light in the way they were to go.
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"You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them1, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. Footnote: 1Prov. 1:23, Ezek. 36:27, Zech. 7:12.
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"And for forty years You sustained them in the wilderness – they lacked not. Their garments did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
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"And You gave them reigns and peoples, and apportioned them their lot. So they took possession of the land of Siḥon, and the land of the sovereign of Ḥeshbon, and the land of Oḡ sovereign of Bashan.
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"And You increased their children as the stars of the heavens, and brought them into the land which You had said to their fathers to go in and possess.
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"So the sons went in and possessed the land, and You humbled before them the people of the land, the Kenaʽanites, and gave them into their hands, with their sovereigns and the people of the land, to do with them as they desired.
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"And they captured walled cities and a rich land, and possessed houses filled with all good, cisterns already dug, vineyards, and olive-trees, and fruit trees, in plenty. So they ate and were satisfied and grew fat, and delighted themselves in Your great goodness.
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"But they became disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your Torah behind their backs. And they slew Your prophets who had warned them, to bring them back to Yourself. And they worked great blasphemies.
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"Therefore You gave them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them. And in the time of their distress, when they cried to You, You heard from the heavens. And according to Your great compassion You gave them saviours who saved them from the hand of their enemies.
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"But after they had rest, they turned back to do evil before You. Then You left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they ruled over them. But when they turned back and cried out to You, You heard from the heavens, and delivered them according to Your compassion, many times,
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and warned them, to bring them back to Your Torah. But they acted proudly, and did not obey Your commands, and sinned against Your right-rulings, ‘which if a man does, he shall live1 by them.’ And they gave the rebellious shoulder and hardened their necks, and would not hear. Footnote: 1Lev. 18:5, Mt. 19:17, Lk. 10:28 & John 12:50.
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"And You had patience with them for many years, and did warn them by Your Spirit, by the hand of Your prophets, yet they would not give ear. Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
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"But in Your great compassion You did not make an end of them nor forsake them, for You are an Ěl of favour and compassion.
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"And now, our Elohim, the great, the mighty, and awesome Ěl, guarding the covenant and the kindness, let not all the trouble that has come upon us, our sovereigns and our heads, our priests and our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people, from the days of the sovereigns of Ashshur until this day, seem little before You.
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"And in all that has come upon us You are righteous, for You have done truth, but we have done wrong.
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"And our sovereigns, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Your Torah, nor heeded Your commands and Your witnesses, with which You witnessed against them.
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"For they have not served You in their reign, or in Your great goodness that You gave them, or in the large and rich land which You set before them – neither turned back from their evil deeds.
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"See, we are servants today! And the land that You gave to our fathers, to eat its fruit and the good of it, see, we are servants in it!
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"And its rich yield goes to the sovereigns You have set over us, because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
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"And because of all this, we are making a trustworthy pledge, and write it. And our rulers, our Lĕwites, our priests set their seal on it."
Daniel 9:4-19
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And I prayed to יהוה my Elohim, and made confession, and said, "O יהוה, great and awesome Ěl, guarding the covenant and the kindness to those who love Him, and to those who guard His commands.
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"We have sinned and did crookedness, and did wrong and rebelled, to turn aside from Your commands and from Your right-rulings.
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"And we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your Name to our sovereigns, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
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"O יהוה, to You is the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as it is this day – to the men of Yehuḏah, to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and all Yisra’ĕl, those near and those far off in all the lands to which You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You.
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"O Master, to us is the shame of face, to our sovereigns, to our heads, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
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"To יהוה our Elohim are the compassions and forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him.
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"And we have not obeyed the voice of יהוה our Elohim, to walk in His Torot, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
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"And all Yisra’ĕl have transgressed Your Torah, and turned aside, so as not to obey Your voice. So the curse and the oath written in the Torah of Mosheh the servant of Elohim have been poured out on us, for we have sinned against Him.
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"And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our rulers who judged us, by bringing upon us great evil. For under all the heavens there has not been done like what was done to Yerushalayim.
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"As it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, all this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated the face of יהוה our Elohim, to turn back from our crookednesses, and to study Your truth.
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"Hence יהוה has watched over the evil and has brought it upon us. For יהוה our Elohim is righteous in all the works which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.
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"And now, O יהוה our Elohim, who brought Your people out of the land of Mitsrayim with a strong hand, and made Yourself a Name, as it is this day – we have sinned, we have done wrong!
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"O יהוה, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your displeasure and Your wrath be turned away from Your city Yerushalayim, Your set-apart mountain. For, because of our sins, and because of the crookednesses of our fathers, Yerushalayim and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.
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"And now, our Elohim, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the sake of יהוה cause Your face to shine on Your set-apart place, which is laid waste.
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"O my Elohim, incline Your ear and hear. Open Your eyes and see our wastes, and the city which is called by Your Name. For we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great compassions.
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"O יהוה, hear! O יהוה, forgive! O יהוה, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my Elohim, for Your city and Your people are called by Your Name."
Isaiah 63:7-64:12
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Let me recount the kindnesses of יהוה and the praises of יהוה, according to all that יהוה has done for us, and the great goodness toward the house of Yisra’ĕl, which He has done for them according to His compassion, and according to His many kindnesses.
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And He said, "They are My people, children who do not act falsely." And He became their Saviour.
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In all their distress He was distressed, and the Messenger of His Presence saved them. In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them, and He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
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But they rebelled and grieved His Set-apart Spirit, so He turned against them as an enemy, and He fought against them.
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Then He remembered the days of old, Mosheh, His people, "Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Set-apart Spirit within him,
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who led them by the right hand of Mosheh, with His comely arm, dividing the water before them to make for Himself an everlasting Name,
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who led them through the deep? Like a horse in the wilderness they did not stumble."
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As a beast goes down into the valley, and the Spirit of יהוה causes him to rest, so You led Your people, to make Yourself a comely Name.
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Look down from the heavens, and see from Your set-apart and comely dwelling. Where are Your ardour and Your might, the stirring of Your inward parts and Your compassion toward me? Are they withheld?
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For You are our Father, though Aḇraham does not know us, and Yisra’ĕl does not recognise us. You, O יהוה, are our Father, our Redeemer – Your Name is from of old.
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O יהוה, why do You make us stray from Your ways, and harden our heart from Your fear? Turn back, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your inheritance.
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For a little while Your set-apart people possessed it – our adversaries have trodden down Your set-apart place1. Footnote: 1Ps. 74, Ps. 79, Jer 51:51, Lam. 1:10, Dan. 8:13, Dan. 11:31, Mt. 24:15.
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We have become like those over whom You never ruled – Your Name is not called on them!
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Oh, that You would tear the heavens open, come down, that mountains shall shake before Your ? –
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as when fire burns twigs, as fire makes water boil – to make Your Name known to Your adversaries, so that nations tremble before You.
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When You did awesome matters, which we did not expect, You came down, mountains did shake before You!
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Since the beginning of the ages they have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any Elohim besides You, who acts for those who wait for Him.
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You shall meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers You in Your ways. See, You were wroth when we sinned in them a long time. And should we be saved?
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And all of us have become as one unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as soiled rags. And all of us fade like a leaf, and our crookednesses, like the wind, have taken us away.
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And there is no one who calls on Your Name, who stirs himself up to take hold of You; for You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us because of our crookednesses.
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And now, O יהוה, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter. And we are all the work of Your hand.
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Do not be wroth, O יהוה, nor remember crookedness forever. See, please look, all of us are Your people!
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Your set-apart cities have become a wilderness, Tsiyon has become a wilderness, Yerushalayim a waste.
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Our set-apart and comely House, where our fathers praised You, has been burned up with fire. And all that we treasured has become a ruin.
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In view of all this, would You restrain Yourself, O יהוה? Would You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
Psalms 51:1-19
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Show me favour, O Elohim, According to Your kindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion, Blot out my transgressions.
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Wash me completely from my guilt, And cleanse me from my sin.
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For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me.
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Against You, You alone, have I sinned, And done evil in Your eyes; That You might be proven right in Your words; Be clear when You judge.
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See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived me.
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See, You have desired truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You make me know wisdom.
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Cleanse me with hyssop, and I am clean; Wash me, and I am whiter than snow.
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Let me hear joy and gladness, Let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
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Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my crookednesses.
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Create in me a clean heart, O Elohim, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Set-apart Spirit from me.
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Restore to me the joy of Your deliverance, And uphold me, Noble Spirit!
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Let me teach transgressors Your ways, So that sinners turn back to You.
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Deliver me from blood-guilt, O Elohim, Elohim of my deliverance, Let my tongue sing aloud of Your righteousness.
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O יהוה, open my lips, And that my mouth declare Your praise.
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For You do not desire slaughtering, or I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.
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The slaughterings of Elohim are a broken spirit, A heart broken and crushed, O Elohim, These You do not despise.
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Do good in Your good pleasure to Tsiyon; Build the walls of Yerushalayim.
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Then You would delight in slaughterings of righteousness, In burnt offering and complete burnt offering; Then young bulls would be offered on Your altar.
Psalms 130:1-8
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Out of the depths I have cried to You, O יהוה.
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O יהוה, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To the voice of my prayers.
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O Yah, if You should watch crookednesses, O יהוה, who would stand?
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But with You there is forgiveness, That You might be feared.
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I looked to יהוה, My being has looked, And for His word I have waited.
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My being looks to יהוה More than those watching for morning, watching for morning.
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O Yisra’ĕl, wait for יהוה; For with יהוה there is kindness. And with Him is much redemption,
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For He shall redeem Yisra’ĕl From all his crookednesses.
the most heartfelt longing for a living communion with God Himself:
Psalms 42:2
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My being thirsts for Elohim, for the living Ěl. When shall I enter in to appear before Elohim?
Psalms 63:1
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O Elohim, You are my Ěl; I earnestly seek You; My being has thirsted for You; My flesh has longed for You In a dry and thirsty land without water.
Psalms 84:2
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My being has longed, and even fainted, For the courts of יהוה; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living Ěl.
2.Prayer In the New Testament:
Luke 3:21-22
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And it came to be, when all the people were immersed, יהושע also being immersed, and praying, the heaven was opened,
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and the Set-apart Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven saying, "You are My Son, the Beloved, in You I did delight."
Luke 6:12
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And in those days it came to be that He went out to the mountain to pray, and was spending the night in prayer to Elohim.
Luke 9:16
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And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the taught ones to set before the crowd.
Luke 9:29
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And it came to be, as He prayed, the appearance of His face changed, and His garment dazzling white.
Luke 22:32
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"But I have prayed for you, that your belief should not fail. And when you have turned, strengthen your brothers."
Luke 22:39-46
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And coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, according to usage, and His taught ones also followed Him.
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And coming to the place, He said to them, "Pray that you do not enter into trial."
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And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and falling on His knees He was praying,
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saying, "Father, if it be Your counsel, remove this cup from Me. Yet not My desire, but let Yours be done."
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And there appeared a messenger from heaven to Him, strengthening Him.
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And being in agony, He was praying more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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And rising up from prayer, and coming to His taught ones, He found them sleeping from grief.
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And He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into trial."
Luke 23:34-46
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And יהושע said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.
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And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, "He saved others, let Him save Himself if He is the Messiah, the chosen of Elohim."
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And the soldiers were mocking Him too, coming and offering Him sour wine,
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and saying, "If You are the Sovereign of the Yehuḏim, save Yourself."
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And there was also an inscription written over Him in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Heḇrew: THIS IS THE SOVEREIGN OF THE YEHUḎIM.
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And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of Him, saying, "If You are the Messiah, save Yourself and us."
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But the other, responding, rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear Elohim, since you are under the same judgment?
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"And we, indeed, rightly so, for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this One has done no wrong."
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And he said to יהושע, "Master, remember me when You come into Your reign."
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And יהושע said to him, "Truly, I say to you today, you shall be with Me in Paradise."
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And it was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land, until the ninth hour.
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And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the Dwelling Place was torn in two.
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And crying out with a loud voice, יהושע said, "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit." And having said this, He breathed His last.
Matthew 27:46
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And about the ninth hour יהושע cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Ěli, Ěli, lemah sheḇaqtani?" that is, "My Ěl, My Ěl, why have You forsaken Me?"
Luke 11:5-9
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And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,
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since a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I do not have food to set before him,’
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then the one inside answering, says, ‘Do not trouble me, the door is already locked, and my children with me are in bed. I am unable to get up and give to you’?
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"I say to you, if he does not get up and give to him because he is his friend, he shall get up and give him as many as he needs because of his persistence.
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"And I say to you: ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
Luke 18:1-14
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And He spoke a parable to them, that they should always pray and not lose heart,
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saying, "In a certain city there was a certain judge, not fearing Elohim nor regarding man.
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"And a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, ‘Do right to me on my adversary.’
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"And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself, ‘Even if I do not fear Elohim nor regard man,
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yet because this widow troubles me I shall do right to her, lest by her continual coming she wears me out.’ "
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And the Master said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge said.
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"And shall Elohim not do right by all means to His own chosen ones who are crying out day and night to Him, and being patient over them?
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"I say to you that He shall do right to them speedily. But when the Son of Aḏam comes, shall He find the belief on the earth?"
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And He also spoke this parable to some who relied on themselves that they were righteous, and looking down on others:
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"Two men went up to the Set-apart Place to pray – the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
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"The Pharisee stood and began to pray with himself this way, ‘Elohim, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men, swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
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‘I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess.’
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"But the tax collector standing at a distance would not even raise his eyes to the heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘Elohim, show favour unto me, a sinner!’
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"I say to you, this man went down to his house declared right, rather than the other. For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted."
Matthew 5:44-45
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"But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those insulting you and persecuting you,
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so that you become sons of your Father in the heavens. Because He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 6:35, Acts 14:16-17.
Matthew 6:5-8
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"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the congregations and on the corners of the streets, to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
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"But you, when you pray, go into your room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.
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"And when praying, do not keep on babbling like the gentiles. For they think that they shall be heard for their many words.
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"Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
Matthew 7:7-11
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"Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
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"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.
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"Or is there a man among you who, if his son asks for bread, shall give him a stone?
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"Or if he asks for a fish, shall he give him a snake?
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"If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew 9:38
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"Pray then that the Master of the harvest would send out workers to His harvest."
Matthew 17:19-21
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Then the taught ones came to יהושע by Himself and said, "Why were we unable to cast him out?"
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And יהושע said to them, "Because of your unbelief, for truly, I say to you, if you have belief as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move. And no matter shall be impossible for you.
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"But this kind does not go out except through prayer and fasting."
Matthew 18:19-20
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"Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning any matter that they ask, it shall be done for them by My Father in the heavens.
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"For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there I am in their midst."
Matthew 21:21-22
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And יהושע answering, said to them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have belief and do not doubt, you shall not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be thrown into the sea,’ it shall be done.
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"And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive."
Matthew 24:20
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"And pray that your flight does not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.
Matthew 26:41
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"Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."
Matthew 6:7-8
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"And when praying, do not keep on babbling like the gentiles. For they think that they shall be heard for their many words.
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"Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
Matthew 7:11
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"If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew 7:11
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"If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew 6:10
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let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 26:39
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And going forward a little, He fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I desire, but as You desire."
Matthew 26:42
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Again He went away, a second time, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is impossible for this to pass unless I drink it, let Your desire be done."
1 John 5:14
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And this is the boldness that we have in Him, that if we ask whatever according to His desire, He hears us.
Matthew 7:7-11
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"Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
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"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.
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"Or is there a man among you who, if his son asks for bread, shall give him a stone?
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"Or if he asks for a fish, shall he give him a snake?
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"If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew 21:22
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"And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive."
Matthew 6:9-13
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"This, then, is the way you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart,
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let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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‘Give us today our daily bread.
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‘And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
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‘And do not lead us into trial,1 but deliver us from the wicked one – because Yours is the reign and the power and the esteem, forever. Amĕn.’ Footnote: 1See 26:41.
Luke 11:2-4
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And He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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"Give us day by day our daily bread.
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"And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into trial, but rescue us from the wicked one."
John 16:23
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"And in that day you shall ask Me none at all. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My Name He shall give you.
John 16:24
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"Until now you have asked naught in My Name. Ask, and you shall receive, in order that your joy might be complete.
John 16:26-27
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"In that day you shall ask in My Name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father on your behalf,
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for the Father Himself does love you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from Elohim.
John 17:19
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"And for them I set Myself apart, so that they too might be set apart in truth.
Hebrews 4:14-16
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Therefore, since we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, יהושע the Son of Elohim, let us hold fast our confession.
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For we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was tried in all respects as we are, apart from sin.
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Therefore, let us come boldly to the throne of favour, in order to receive compassion, and find favour for timely help.
Hebrews 10:19-22
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So, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place by the blood of יהושע,
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by a new and living way which He instituted for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
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and having a High Priest over the House of Elohim,
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let us draw near with a true heart in completeness of belief, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.
John 15:7
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"If you stay in Me, and My Words stay in you, you shall ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.
1 John 3:22
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And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we guard His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.1 Footnote: 1Prov. 28:9, John 9:31, Jm. 5:16.
1 John 5:13
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I have written this to you who believe in the Name of the Son of Elohim, so that you know that you possess everlasting life, and so that you believe in the Name of the Son of Elohim.
Acts 1:14
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All these were continuing with one mind in prayer and supplication, with the women and Miryam the mother of יהושע, and with His brothers.
Acts 2:1
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And when the Day of the Festival of Weeks had come, they were all with one mind in one place.
Acts 2:42
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And they were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the emissaries, and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers.
Acts 3:1
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And Kĕpha and Yoḥanan were going up to the Set-apart Place at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Acts 6:4
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but we shall give ourselves continually to prayer and to serving the Word."
Acts 6:6
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whom they set before the emissaries. And when they had prayed, they laid hands on them.
Romans 1:9
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For Elohim is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Good News of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,
Ephesians 1:16
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do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
Philippians 1:9
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And this I pray, that your love might extend more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
1 Thessalonians 1:2
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We give thanks to Elohim always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,
Romans 12:12
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rejoicing in the expectancy, enduring under pressure, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
Ephesians 6:18
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praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;
Philippians 1:9-11
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And this I pray, that your love might extend more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
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for you to examine the matters that differ, in order to be sincere, and not stumbling, until the day of Messiah,
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being filled with the fruit of righteousness,1 through יהושע Messiah, to the esteem and praise of Elohim. Footnote: 1Mt. 3:8-10, Rom. 6:22, Rom. 14:17, 2 Cor. 9:10, Eph. 5:9, Gal. 5:22, Col. 1:10, Heb. 12:11, Jam. 3:18.
1 Thessalonians 1:2
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We give thanks to Elohim always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,
Romans 12:12
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rejoicing in the expectancy, enduring under pressure, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
Ephesians 6:13-20
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Because of this, take up the complete armour of Elohim, so that you have power to withstand in the wicked day, and having done all, to stand.
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Stand, then, having girded your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
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and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;
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above all, having taken up the shield of belief with which you shall have power to quench all the burning arrows of the wicked one.
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Take also the helmet of deliverance, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim,1 Footnote: 1Isa. 59:21.
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praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;
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also for me, that a word might be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to be bold in making known the secret of the Good News,
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for which I am an envoy in chains, that in it I might speak boldly, as I should speak.
Philippians 4:6
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Do not worry at all, but in every matter, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to Elohim.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
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Rejoice always,
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pray without ceasing,
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in all circumstances give thanks, for this is the desire of Elohim in Messiah יהושע for you.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
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And if I have prophecy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all belief, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am none at all.
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And if I give out all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.
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Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up,
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does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil,
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does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth,
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it covers all, believes all, expects all, endures all.
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Love never fails. And whether there be prophecies, they shall be inactive; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be inactive.
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For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
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But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive.
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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish matters.
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For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known.
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And now belief, expectation, and love remain – these three. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 14:1-19
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Pursue love, and earnestly seek the spiritual gifts, but rather that you prophesy.
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For he who is speaking in a tongue does not speak to men but to Elohim, for no one understands, but in the Spirit he speaks secrets.
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But he who is prophesying speaks upbuilding and encouragement and comfort to men.
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He who is speaking in a tongue builds up himself, but he who is prophesying builds up the assembly.
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Now I wish you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you might prophesy, for he who is prophesying is greater than he who is speaking with tongues, unless he interprets, so that the assembly might receive upbuilding.
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But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you, either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by teaching?
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Nevertheless, lifeless instruments making a sound, whether flute or harp, if they do not make a distinction in the sound, how shall it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?
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For indeed, if the trumpet makes an indistinct sound, who shall prepare himself for battle?
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So also you, if you do not give speech by the tongue that is clear, how shall it be known what is spoken? For you shall be speaking into the air.
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There are, undoubtedly, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without distinct sound.
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If then I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks be a foreigner to me.
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So also you, since you are ardent for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in the upbuilding of the assembly.
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Therefore, he who is speaking in a tongue, let him pray that he might interpret.
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For if I am praying in a tongue, my spirit is praying, but my understanding is without fruit.
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What then is it? I shall pray with the spirit, and I shall also pray with the understanding. I shall sing with the spirit, and I shall also sing with the understanding.
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Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how shall he who fills up the place of the unlearned say "Amĕn" at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say?
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For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not built up.
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I thank my Elohim I speak with tongues more than you all,
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but in an assembly I wish to speak five words with my understanding that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Ephesians 6:17-20
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Take also the helmet of deliverance, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim,1 Footnote: 1Isa. 59:21.
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praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;
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also for me, that a word might be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to be bold in making known the secret of the Good News,
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for which I am an envoy in chains, that in it I might speak boldly, as I should speak.
Jude 1:20
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But you, beloved ones, building yourselves up on your most set-apart belief, praying in the Set-apart Spirit,
John 14:10-21
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"Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak from Myself. But the Father who stays in Me does His works.
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"Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, otherwise believe Me because of the works themselves.
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"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he shall do also. And greater works than these he shall do, because I go to My Father.
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"And whatever you ask in My Name, that I shall do, in order that the Father might be esteemed in the Son.
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"If you ask whatever in My Name, I shall do it.
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"If you love Me, you shall guard My commands.1 Footnote: 1See Ex. 20:6, vv. 21&23, 1 John 5:2-3, 2 John v. 6.
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"And I shall ask the Father, and He shall give you another Helper, to stay with you forever –
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the Spirit of the Truth, whom the world is unable to receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, for He stays with you and shall be in you.
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"I shall not leave you orphans – I am coming to you.
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"Yet a little while, and the world no longer sees Me, but you shall see Me, because I live, and you shall live.
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"In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
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"He who possesses My commands and guards them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and manifest Myself to him."
Romans 8:1-39
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There is, then, now no condemnation to those who are in Messiah יהושע, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
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For the Torah of the Spirit of the life in Messiah יהושע has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
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For the Torah being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim, having His own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
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so that the righteousness of the Torah should be completed in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
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For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the matters of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the matters of the Spirit.
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For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.
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Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Elohim, for it does not subject itself1 to the Torah of Elohim2, neither indeed is it able, Footnotes: 1Or does not obey. 2John 15:5, 1 John 4:4, 1 John 3:9, 1 John 5:18.
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and those who are in the flesh are unable to please Elohim.
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But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Messiah, this one is not His.
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And if Messiah is in you, the body is truly dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness.
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And if the Spirit of Him who raised יהושע from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Messiah from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit dwelling in you.
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So then, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
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For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
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For as many as are led by the Spirit of Elohim, these are sons of Elohim.
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For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."
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The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of Elohim,
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and if children, also heirs – truly heirs of Elohim, and co-heirs with Messiah, if indeed we suffer with Him, in order that we also be exalted together.
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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the esteem that is to be revealed in us.
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For the intense longing1 of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of Elohim. Footnote: 1Lit. anxiously looking with outstretched head.
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For the creation was subjected to futility, not from choice, but because of Him who subjected it, in anticipation,
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that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage to corruption into the esteemed freedom of the children of Elohim.
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For we know that all the creation groans together, and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
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And not only so, but even we ourselves who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we ourselves also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
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For in this expectation we were saved, but expectation that is seen is not expectation, for when anyone sees, does he expect it?
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And if we expect what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.
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And in the same way the Spirit does help in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray, but the Spirit Himself pleads our case for us with groanings unutterable.
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And He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the set-apart ones according to Elohim.
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And we know that all matters work together for good to those who love Elohim, to those who are called according to His purpose.
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Because those whom He knew beforehand, He also ordained beforehand to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, for Him to be the first-born among many brothers.
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And whom He ordained beforehand, these He also called, and whom He called, these He also declared right. And whom He declared right, these He also esteemed.
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What then shall we say to this? If Elohim is for us, who is against us?
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Truly, He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all – how shall He not, along with Him, freely give us all else?
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Who shall bring any charge against Elohim’s chosen ones? It is Elohim who is declaring right.
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Who is he who is condemning? It is Messiah who died, and furthermore is also raised up, who is also at the right hand of Elohim, who also makes intercession for us.
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Who shall separate us from the love of the Messiah? Shall pressure, or distress, or persecution, or scarcity of food, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
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As it has been written, "For Your sake we are killed all day long, we are reckoned as sheep of slaughter."
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But in all this we are more than overcomers through Him who loved us.
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For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor messengers nor principalities nor powers, neither the present nor the future,
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nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of Elohim which is in Messiah יהושע our Master.
Galatians 4:1-31
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And I say, for as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, though he is master of all,
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but is under guardians and trustees till the time prearranged by the father.
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So we also, when we were children, were under the elementary matters of the world, being enslaved.
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But when the completion of the time came, Elohim sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under Torah,
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to redeem those who were under Torah, in order to receive the adoption as sons.
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And because you are sons, Elohim has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"
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So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir of Elohim through Messiah.
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But then, indeed, not knowing Elohim, you served those which by nature are not mighty ones.
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But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elementary matters,1 to which you wish to be enslaved again? Footnote: 1See v.3, Col. 2:8 & 20.
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You observe days and months and seasons and years.
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I fear for you, lest by any means I have laboured for you in vain.
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Brothers, I beg you to become as I am, because I am as you are. You did not wrong me at all.
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But you know that through weakness of the flesh I brought the Good News to you before.
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And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as a messenger of Elohim, as Messiah יהושע.
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What then was your blessedness? For I bear you witness, that if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.
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So then, have I become your enemy, speaking truth to you?
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They are ardent towards you, for no good, but they wish to shut you out, that you might be ardent towards them.
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And it is good always to be ardent in what is good, and not only when I am present with you.
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My little children, for whom I am again in birth pains until Messiah is formed in you,
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even now I wish to be present with you now and to change my voice, for I have doubts about you.
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Say to me, you who wish to be under Torah, do you not hear the Torah?
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For it has been written that Aḇraham had two sons, one by a female servant, the other by a free woman.
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But he who was of the female servant was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman through promise.
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This is allegorical, for these are the two covenants: one indeed from Mount Sinai which brings forth slavery, which is Haḡar,
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for this Haḡar is Mount Sinai in Araḇia, and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in slavery with her children.
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But the Yerushalayim above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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For it has been written, "Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who do not have birth pains! For the deserted one has many more children than she who has a husband."
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And we, brothers, as Yitsḥaq was, are children of promise.
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But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him born according to the Spirit, so also now.
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But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the female servant and her son, for the son of the female servant shall by no means be heir with the son of the free woman."
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Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female servant but of the free woman.
Prayers of Jesus
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1. The Lord's Prayer
2. Christ's Doctrine of Prayer: Sacredness, Importunity, Conditions
3. Prayers Offered by Christ
(1) The High-priestly Prayer
(2) The Prayer in Gethsemane
(3) The Prayers on the Cross
(4) Prayer after the Resurrection
(5) General Conclusions
In the history and doctrine of prayer, nothing is more important than the light shed upon the subject by the prayers of Jesus. These are to be studied in connection with His teaching concerning prayer found in the model of the Lord's Prayer, and general statements and hints to His disciples.
1. The Lord's Prayer:
This model of prayer is given in two forms:
Matthew 6:9-13
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"This, then, is the way you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart,
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let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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‘Give us today our daily bread.
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‘And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
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‘And do not lead us into trial,1 but deliver us from the wicked one – because Yours is the reign and the power and the esteem, forever. Amĕn.’ Footnote: 1See 26:41.
Luke 11:2-4
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And He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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"Give us day by day our daily bread.
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"And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into trial, but rescue us from the wicked one."
The differences of form show that exactness of similarity in words is not essential. The prayer includes adoration, supplication for the Kingdom, for personal needs, for forgiveness, for deliverance from temptation and the ascription of glory. It is at once individual and universal; it sets the recognition of divine things first, and yet clearly asserts the ethical and social relations of life. See &LORD'S PRAYER, THE.
2. Christ's Doctrine of Prayer: Sacredness, Importunity, Conditions:
Matthew 6:5
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"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the congregations and on the corners of the streets, to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
Matthew 6:6
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"But you, when you pray, go into your room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.
Luke 11:5-9
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And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,
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since a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I do not have food to set before him,’
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then the one inside answering, says, ‘Do not trouble me, the door is already locked, and my children with me are in bed. I am unable to get up and give to you’?
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"I say to you, if he does not get up and give to him because he is his friend, he shall get up and give him as many as he needs because of his persistence.
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"And I say to you: ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
Luke 18:1-8
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And He spoke a parable to them, that they should always pray and not lose heart,
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saying, "In a certain city there was a certain judge, not fearing Elohim nor regarding man.
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"And a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, ‘Do right to me on my adversary.’
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"And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself, ‘Even if I do not fear Elohim nor regard man,
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yet because this widow troubles me I shall do right to her, lest by her continual coming she wears me out.’ "
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And the Master said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge said.
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"And shall Elohim not do right by all means to His own chosen ones who are crying out day and night to Him, and being patient over them?
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"I say to you that He shall do right to them speedily. But when the Son of Aḏam comes, shall He find the belief on the earth?"
Luke 18:9-14
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And He also spoke this parable to some who relied on themselves that they were righteous, and looking down on others:
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"Two men went up to the Set-apart Place to pray – the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
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"The Pharisee stood and began to pray with himself this way, ‘Elohim, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men, swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
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‘I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess.’
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"But the tax collector standing at a distance would not even raise his eyes to the heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘Elohim, show favour unto me, a sinner!’
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"I say to you, this man went down to his house declared right, rather than the other. For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted."
Matthew 6:7-8
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"And when praying, do not keep on babbling like the gentiles. For they think that they shall be heard for their many words.
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"Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
Mark 11:24-26
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"Because of this I say to you, whatever you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
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"And whenever you stand praying, if you hold whatever against anyone, forgive, so that your Father in the heavens shall also forgive you your trespasses.
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"But if you do not forgive, neither shall your Father in the heavens forgive your trespasses."
Matthew 18:19-20
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"Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning any matter that they ask, it shall be done for them by My Father in the heavens.
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"For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there I am in their midst."
John 14:13-16
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"And whatever you ask in My Name, that I shall do, in order that the Father might be esteemed in the Son.
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"If you ask whatever in My Name, I shall do it.
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"If you love Me, you shall guard My commands.1 Footnote: 1See Ex. 20:6, vv. 21&23, 1 John 5:2-3, 2 John v. 6.
3. Prayers Offered by our messiah:
Matthew 11:25
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At that time יהושע responding, said, "I thank You, Father, Master of the heavens and earth, because You have hidden these matters from clever and learned ones and have revealed them to babes.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 10:21.
Matthew 11:26
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"Yea, Father, because so it was well-pleasing in Your sight.
Matthew 14:23
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And having dismissed the crowds, He went up to the mountain by Himself to pray. And when evening had come, He was alone there.
Matthew 15:36
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and taking the seven loaves and the fish, giving thanks, He broke them and gave to His taught ones, and the taught ones to the crowd.
Matthew 14:19
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And commanding the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the taught ones. And the taught ones gave to the crowds,
Matthew 17:21
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"But this kind does not go out except through prayer and fasting."
Mark 7:34
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And looking up to the heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened."
John 11:41
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So they took away the stone where the dead man was laid. And יהושע lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
John 11:42
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"And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing by I said this, in order that they believe that You sent Me."
Matthew 19:13
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Then young children were brought to Him to lay His hands on them and pray, and the taught ones rebuked them.
Matthew 19:14
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But יהושע said, "Allow the young children and do not stop them from coming to Me, for of such is the reign of the heavens."
Matthew 19:15
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And having laid hands on them He went from there.
Matthew 26:26
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And as they were eating, יהושע took bread, and having blessed, broke and gave it to the taught ones and said, "Take, eat, this is My body."
(1) The High-Priestly Prayer.
John 17:1-26
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יהושע said these words, and lifted up His eyes to the heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come. Esteem Your Son, so that Your Son also might esteem You,
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as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give everlasting life to all whom You have given Him.
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"And this is everlasting life, that they should know You, the only true Elohim, and יהושע Messiah whom You have sent.
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"I have esteemed You on the earth, having accomplished the work You have given Me that I should do.
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"And now, esteem Me with Yourself, Father, with the esteem which I had with You before the world was.
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"I have revealed Your Name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have guarded Your Word.1 Footnote: 1See Ps. 138:2.
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"Now they have come to know that all You gave to Me, is from You.
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"Because the Words which You gave to Me, I have given to them. And they have received them, and have truly known that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
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"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
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"And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I have been esteemed in them.
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"And I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Set-apart Father, guard them in Your Name which You have given Me, so that they might be one,1 as We are. Footnote: 1See 10:30.
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"When I was with them in the world, I was guarding them in Your Name which You have given Me, and I watched over them, and not one of them perished except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be filled.
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"And now I come to You. And I speak these words in the world, so that they have My joy completed in them.
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"I have given them Your Word, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
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"I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the wicked one.
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"They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
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"Set them apart in Your truth – Your Word is truth.1 Footnote: 1See Ps. 119:142, 151.
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"As You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world.
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"And for them I set Myself apart, so that they too might be set apart in truth.
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"And I do not pray for these alone, but also for those believing in Me through their word,
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so that they all might be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, so that they too might be one in Us, so that the world might believe that You have sent Me.
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"And the esteem which You gave Me I have given them, so that they might be one as We are one,
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"I in them, and You in Me, so that they might be perfected into one, so that the world knows that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
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"Father, I desire that those whom You have given Me, might be with Me where I am, so that they see My esteem which You have given Me, because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
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"O righteous Father, indeed the world did not know You, but I knew You, and these knew that You sent Me.
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"And I have made Your Name known to them, and shall make it known,1 so that the love with which You loved Me might be in them, and I in them." Footnote: 1See v. 6, Ps. 22:22, Heb. 2:12.
(2) The Prayer in Gethsemane.
Matthew 26:36-44
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Then יהושע came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the taught ones, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."
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And He took with Him Kĕpha and the two sons of Zaḇdai, and He began to be grieved and deeply distressed.
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Then He said to them, "My being is exceedingly grieved, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me."
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And going forward a little, He fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I desire, but as You desire."
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And He came to the taught ones and found them asleep, and said to Kĕpha, "So, were you not able to watch with Me one hour?
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"Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."
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Again He went away, a second time, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is impossible for this to pass unless I drink it, let Your desire be done."
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And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
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And He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Mark 14:22-40
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And as they were eating, יהושע took bread, having blessed, broke it, gave it to them and said, "Take, eat, this is My body."
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And taking the cup, giving thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
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And He said to them, "This is My blood, that of the renewed covenant, which is shed for many.
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"Truly, I say to you, I shall certainly no more drink of the fruit of the vine till that day when I drink it anew in the reign of Elohim."
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And having sung a song, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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And יהושע said to them, "All of you shall stumble in Me this night, for it has been written, ‘I shall strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.’
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"But after I am raised, I shall go before you to Galil."
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And Kĕpha said to Him, "Even if all shall stumble, yet not I."
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And יהושע said to him, "Truly, I say to you that today, this night, before the cock shall crow twice, you shall deny Me three times."
31:
But he spoke more strongly, "If I have to die with You, I shall not deny You!" And they all said the same.
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And they came to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to His taught ones, "Sit here while I pray."
33:
And He took with Him Kĕpha, and Yaʽaqoḇ, and Yoḥanan, and He began to be greatly amazed, and to be deeply distressed.
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And He said to them, "My being is exceedingly grieved, even to death. Stay here and watch."
35:
And He went on a little, and fell on the ground, and was praying that if it were possible, the hour might pass from Him.
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And He said, "Abba, Father, all is possible for You. Make this cup pass from Me. Yet not what I desire, but what You desire."
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And He came and found them sleeping, and said to Kĕpha, "Shimʽon, are you sleeping? You were not able to watch one hour!
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"Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."
39:
And again He went away and prayed, and spoke the same words.
40:
And having returned, He found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.
Luke 22:39-46
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And coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, according to usage, and His taught ones also followed Him.
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And coming to the place, He said to them, "Pray that you do not enter into trial."
41:
And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and falling on His knees He was praying,
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saying, "Father, if it be Your counsel, remove this cup from Me. Yet not My desire, but let Yours be done."
43:
And there appeared a messenger from heaven to Him, strengthening Him.
44:
And being in agony, He was praying more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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And rising up from prayer, and coming to His taught ones, He found them sleeping from grief.
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And He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into trial."
Hebrews 5:1-10
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For every priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in matters relating to Elohim, to offer both gifts and offerings for sins,
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being able to have a measure of feeling for those not knowing and being led astray, since he himself is also surrounded by weakness.
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And on account of this he has to offer for sins – as for the people, so also for himself.
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And no one obtains this esteem for himself, but he who is called by Elohim, even as Aharon also was.
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So also the Messiah did not extol Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him, "You are My Son, today I have brought You forth."1 Footnote: 1See 1:5, Ps. 2:7.
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As He also says in another place, "You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitseḏeq,"1 Footnote: 1Ps. 110:4.
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who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His reverent fear,
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though being a Son, He learned obedience by what He suffered.
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And having been perfected, He became the Causer of everlasting deliverance to all those obeying Him,
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having been designated by Elohim a High Priest "according to the order of Malkitseḏeq,"
2 Corinthians 12:8
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Concerning this I pleaded with the Master three times to take it away from me.
(3) The Prayers on the Cross.
Matthew 27:46
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And about the ninth hour יהושע cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Ěli, Ěli, lemah sheḇaqtani?" that is, "My Ěl, My Ěl, why have You forsaken Me?"
Mark 15:34
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And at the ninth hour יהושע cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Ěli, Ěli, lamah sheḇaqtani?"1 which is translated, "My Ěl, My Ěl, why have You forsaken Me?" Footnote: 1In Hebrew - "Eli, Eli lamah azaḇtani" - as per Ps. 22:1.
Psalms 22:1
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My Ěl, My Ěl, why have You forsaken Me – Far from saving Me, far from the words of My groaning?
Luke 23:34
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And יהושע said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.
Luke 23:46
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And crying out with a loud voice, יהושע said, "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit." And having said this, He breathed His last.
(4) Prayer After the Resurrection.
Luke 24:30
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And it came to be, when He sat at the table with them, having taken the bread, He blessed, and having broken, He was giving it to them.
Luke 24:51
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And it came to be, while He was blessing them, that He was parted from them and was taken up into the heaven.
Mark 6:41
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And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to the heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to His taught ones to set before them. And the two fishes He divided among them all.
Mark 7:34
34:
And looking up to the heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened."
John 11:41
41:
So they took away the stone where the dead man was laid. And יהושע lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
John 17:1
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יהושע said these words, and lifted up His eyes to the heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come. Esteem Your Son, so that Your Son also might esteem You,
Luke 3:21
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And it came to be, when all the people were immersed, יהושע also being immersed, and praying, the heaven was opened,
Luke 6:12
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And in those days it came to be that He went out to the mountain to pray, and was spending the night in prayer to Elohim.
Luke 9:29
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And it came to be, as He prayed, the appearance of His face changed, and His garment dazzling white.
Luke 22:41-45
41:
And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and falling on His knees He was praying,
42:
saying, "Father, if it be Your counsel, remove this cup from Me. Yet not My desire, but let Yours be done."
43:
And there appeared a messenger from heaven to Him, strengthening Him.
44:
And being in agony, He was praying more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
45:
And rising up from prayer, and coming to His taught ones, He found them sleeping from grief.
Here is an article about what is commonly known as "The Lords Prayer" taken from the International Bible Encyclopedia:
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Mat_6:9-13; Luk_11:2-4): Prayer occupied an important place in the life and the teachings of Jesus. He was emphatically a man of prayer, praying frequently in private and in public, and occasionally spending whole nights in communion with His heavenly Father. He often spoke to His disciples on the subject of prayer, cautioning them against ostentation, or urging perseverance, faith and large expectation, and He gave them a model of devotion in the Lord's prayer.
1. Twofold Form:
This prayer is given by the evangelists in two different forms and in two entirely different con nections. In Matthew's account the prayer is given as a part of the Sermon on the Mount and in connection with a criticism of the ostentation usual in the prayers of the hypocrites and the heathen. Lk introduces the prayer after the Galilean ministry and represents it as given in response to a request from one of His disciples, "Lord teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." It gives us, however, no note of time or place, and it is quite possible that the incident which it records took place much earlier. The later form is much shorter than that of Mt and the common parts differ materially in language.
In view of the differences, the reader instinctively inquires whether the prayer was given on two different occasions in these different connections, or the evangelists have presented the same incident in forms derived from different sources, or modified the common source to suit their immediate purposes.
If the prayer was given only on one occasion, there is little doubt that Luke preserves the true historical circumstances, though not necessarily the accurate point of time or place, or the exact form of language. Such a request made at the close of the prayer of Jesus would be natural, and the incident bears every mark of reality. On the other hand, it would be reasonable to assume that the author of Matthew's source, remembering the incident, incorporated the prayer in the Sermon on the Mount as an illustration of the injunctions concerning prayer.
There are many reasons for regarding the Sermon as a collection of sayings spoken on different occasions and summarized for convenience in teaching and memorizing. There is, however, no proof that the prayer was given but once by Jesus. We need not suppose that His disciples were always the same, and we know that He gave instruction in prayer on various occasions. He may have given the model prayer on one occasion spontaneously and at another time on the request of a disciple. It is probable that the two evangelists, using the same or different sources, presented the prayer in such connection as best suited the plan of their narratives. In any case, it is rather remarkable that the prayer is not quoted or directly mentioned anywhere else in the New Testament.
2. Arrangement:
In addition to the opening salutation, "Our Father who art in heaven," the Lord's Prayer consists of six petitions. These are arranged in three equal parts. In the first part, the thought is directed toward God and His great purposes. In the second part, the attention is directed to our condition and wants. The two sets of petitions are closely related, and a line of progress runs through the whole prayer. The petitions of the first part are inseparable, as each includes the one which follows. As the hallowing of God's name requires the coming of His kingdom, so the kingdom comes through the doing of His will. Again, the first part calls for the second, for if His will is to be done by us, we must have sustenance, forgiveness and deliverance from evil. If we seek first the glory of God, the end requires our good. While we hallow His name we are sanctified in Him. The doxology of Mt and our rituals is not found in the leading manuscripts and is generally regarded as an ancient liturgical addition. For this reason it is omitted by the Revised Version (British and American).
3. Sources:
The sources of the two accounts cannot be known with certainty. It is hardly correct to say that one account is more original than the other. The original was spoken in Aramaic, while both of the reports are certainly based on Greek sources. The general agreement in language, especially in the use of the unique term
ἐπιούιος, epioúsios shows that they are not independent translations of the Aramaic original.
4. Special Expressions:
Three expressions of the prayer deserve special notice. The words, "Our Father," are new in the Bible and in the world. When God is called Father in the Old Testament, He is regarded as Father of the nation, not of the individual. Even in the moving prayer of
Isa_63:16 (the King James Version), "Doubtless thou art our father," the connection makes clear that the reference is to God in the capacity of Creator. The thought of God as the Father of the individual is first reached in the Apocrypha: "O Lord, Father and Master of my life" (Sirach 23:1; compare The Wisdom of Solomon 2:16; 14:3). Here also the notion is veiled in the thought of God as Creator. It was left for Jesus the Son to give us the privilege of calling God "Our Father."
Of the adjective
epiousion, "daily" or "needful," neither the origin nor the exact meaning is or is likely to be known. Whether it is qualitative or temporal depends on its derivation from ἐπεῖναι, epeinai, or ἐπιέναι, epiénai. Our translators usually follow the latter, translating "daily." the American Standard Revised Version gives "needful" as a marginal rendering.
The phrase
ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ, apó toú ponēroú, is equally ambiguous. Since the adjective may be either masculine or neut., it is impossible to decide whether "from the evil one" or "from the evil" was intended. The probability is in favor of the masculine. The Oriental naturally thought of evil in the concrete, just as we think of it in the abstract. For this reason the Authorized rendering "from evil" is more real to us. The evil deprecated is moral, not physical.
5. Purpose:
The Lord's Prayer was given as a lesson in prayer. As such this simple model surpasses all precepts about prayer. It suggests to the child of God the proper objects of prayer. It supplies suitable forms of language and illustrates the simple and direct manner in which we may trustingly address our heavenly Father. It embraces the elements of all spiritual desire summed up in a few choice sentences. For those who are not able to bring their struggling desires to birth in articulate language it provides an instructive form. To the mature disciple it ever unfolds with richer depths of meaning. Though we learn these words at our mother's knee, we need a lifetime to fill them with meaning and all eternity to realize their answer.
Literature.
The literature of this subject is very extensive. For brief treatment the student will consult the relative sections in the commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke and in the Lives of Christ and the articles on the Lord's Prayer in the several Bible diets. A collection of patristic comment is given by G. Tillmann in his Das Gebet nach der Lehre der Heiligen dargestellt, 2 volumes, Freiburg, 1876. The original comments may be found in any of the standard collections of the Church Fathers.
Among historical studies may be mentioned, F.H. Chase, The Lord's Prayer in the Early Church, Cambridge, 1891, and G. Dalman, Die Worte Jesu, I, Leipzig, 1898, English translation, Edinburgh, 1902.
Among the numerous interpretative treatments, the following are some of the more important: N. Hall, The Lord's Prayer, Edinburgh, 1889; H.J. Van Dyke, The Lord's Prayer, New York, 1891; J. Ruskin, Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church, late edition, New York, 1896; E. Wordsworth, Thoughts on the Lord's Prayer, New York, 1898; C.W. Stubbs, Social Teachings of the Lord's Prayer, London, 1900; A.B. Bruce, The Training of the Twelve, chapter vi, 4th edition, New York, 1905; L.T. Chamberlain, The True Doctrine of Prayer, New York, 1906; F.M. Williams, Spiritual Instructions on the Lord's Prayer, New York, 1907.
This is an article on the phrase "HOUSE OF PRAYER" from the same source:
The Mosaic law did not regulate the offering of prayer, but fully recognized its spontaneous character. In what manner or how far back in Jewish history the sacrificial prayer, mentioned in
Luk_1:10, originated no one knows. In the days of Christ it had evidently become an institution. But ages before that, stated hours of prayer were known and religiously observed by all devout Jews. It evidently belonged to the evolutionary process of Jewish worship, in connection with the temple-ritual. Devout Jews, living at Jerusalem, went to the temple to pray (Luk_18:10; Act_3:1). The pious Jews of the Diaspora opened their windows "toward Jerus" and prayed "toward" the place of God's presence (1Ki_8:48; Dan_6:10; Psa_5:7). The regular hours of prayer, as we may infer from Psa_55:17 and Dan_6:10, were three in number. The first coincided with the morning sacrifice, at the 3rd hour of the morning, at 9 AM therefore (Act_2:15). The second was at the 6th hour, or at noon, and may have coincided with the thanksgiving for the chief meal of the day, a religious custom apparently universally observed (Mat_15:36; Act_27:35). The 3rd hour of prayer coincided with the evening sacrifice, at the ninth hour (Act_3:1; Act_10:30). Thus every day, as belonging to God, was religiously subdivided, and regular seasons of prayer were assigned to the devout believer. Its influence on the development of the religious spirit must have been incalculable, and it undoubtedly is, at least in part, the solution of the riddle of the preservation of the Jewish faith in the cruel centuries of its bitter persecution. Mohammedanism borrowed this feature of worship from the Jews and early Christians, and made it one of the chief pillars of its faith.
According to the King James Concordance, the following words are translated into the english word "Prayer."
When should we pray:
Hours of Prayer
The Mosaic law did not regulate the offering of prayer, but fully recognized its spontaneous character. In what manner or how far back in Jewish history the sacrificial prayer, mentioned in
Luk_1:10, originated no one knows. In the days of Christ it had evidently become an institution. But ages before that, stated hours of prayer were known and religiously observed by all devout Jews. It evidently belonged to the evolutionary process of Jewish worship, in connection with the temple-ritual. Devout Jews, living at Jerusalem, went to the temple to pray (Luk_18:10; Act_3:1). The pious Jews of the Diaspora opened their windows "toward Jerus" and prayed "toward" the place of God's presence (1Ki_8:48; Dan_6:10; Psa_5:7). The regular hours of prayer, as we may infer from Psa_55:17 and Dan_6:10, were three in number. The first coincided with the morning sacrifice, at the 3rd hour of the morning, at 9 AM therefore (Act_2:15). The second was at the 6th hour, or at noon, and may have coincided with the thanksgiving for the chief meal of the day, a religious custom apparently universally observed (Mat_15:36; Act_27:35). The 3rd hour of prayer coincided with the evening sacrifice, at the ninth hour (Act_3:1; Act_10:30). Thus every day, as belonging to God, was religiously subdivided, and regular seasons of prayer were assigned to the devout believer. Its influence on the development of the religious spirit must have been incalculable, and it undoubtedly is, at least in part, the solution of the riddle of the preservation of the Jewish faith in the cruel centuries of its bitter persecution. Mohammedanism borrowed this feature of worship from the Jews and early Christians, and made it one of the chief pillars of its faith.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
4:
"Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!
5:
"And you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.
6:
"And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart,
7:
and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,
8:
and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9:
"And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
The following are the original words that have been translated into the words "pray" or "prayer" in the scripture:
H2470
חלה
châlâh
khaw-law'
A primitive root (compare
H2342, H2490); properly to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat: - beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, X pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (X supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
Daniel 9:13
13:
"As it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, all this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated the face of יהוה our Elohim, to turn back from our crookednesses, and to study Your truth.
H3908
לחשׁ
lachash
lakh'-ash
From
H3907; properly a whisper, that is, by implication (in a good sense) a private prayer, (in a bad one) an incantation; concretely an amulet: - charmed, earring, enchantment, orator, prayer.
Isaiah 26:16
16:
O יהוה, in distress they shall visit You, they shall pour out a prayer when Your disciplining is upon them.
H6279
עתר
‛âthar
aw-thar'
A primitive root (rather denominative from
H6281); to burn incense in worship, that is, intercede (reciprocally listen to prayer): - intreat, (make) pray (-er).
Job 22:26-27
26:
Then you shall certainly delight in the Almighty, and lift up your face to Eloah,
27:
make your prayer to Him. And He shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
Job 33:26
26:
He prays to Eloah, and He accepts him. And he sees His face with joy, and He restores to man his righteousness.
H6419
פּלל
pâlal
paw-lal'
A primitive root; to judge (officially or mentally); by extension to intercede, pray: - intreat, judge (-ment), (make) pray (-er, -ing), make supplication.
pray, 34
Num_21:7
(2), 1Sa_7:5, 1Sa_12:19, 1Sa_12:23, 2Sa_7:27, 1Ki_8:30, 1Ki_8:33, 1Ki_8:35, 1Ki_8:42, 1Ki_8:44, 1Ki_8:48, 1Ki_13:6, 1Ch_17:25, 2Ch_6:24, 2Ch_6:26, 2Ch_6:32, 2Ch_6:38, 2Ch_7:14, Neh_1:6, Job_42:8, Psa_5:2, Psa_32:6, Isa_16:12, Isa_45:20, Jer_7:16, Jer_11:14, Jer_14:11, Jer_29:7, Jer_29:12, Jer_37:3, Jer_42:2, Jer_42:4, Jer_42:20
prayed, 30
Gen_20:17
, Num_11:2, Num_21:7, Deu_9:20, Deu_9:26, 1Sa_1:10, 1Sa_1:27, 1Sa_2:1, 1Sa_8:6, 2Ki_4:33, 2Ki_6:17-18 (2), 2Ki_19:15, 2Ki_19:20, 2Ki_20:2, 2Ch_30:18, 2Ch_32:20, 2Ch_32:24, 2Ch_33:13, Ezr_10:1, Neh_2:4 (2), Job_42:10, Isa_37:15, Isa_37:21, Isa_38:2, Jer_32:16, Dan_9:4, Jon_4:1-2 (2)
praying, 5
1Sa_1:12
, 1Sa_1:26, 1Ki_8:54, 2Ch_7:1, Dan_9:20
prayeth, 4
1Ki_8:28
, 2Ch_6:19-20 (2), Isa_44:17
prayer
, 2
Neh_4:9
, Psa_72:15
H7878
שׂיח
ś
ı̂yach
see'-akh
A primitive root; to ponder, that is, (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence aloud) or (transitively) utter: - commune, complain, declare, meditate, muse, pray, speak, talk (with)
Psalms 55:17
17:
Evening and morning and at noon I complain and moan, And He hears my voice.
Job 15:4
4:
Indeed, you do away with reverence, and withhold prayer before Ěl.
H7879
שׂיח
ś
ı̂yach
see'-akh
From
H7878; a contemplation; by implication an utterance: - babbling, communication, complaint, meditation, prayer, talk.
Psalms 64:1
1:
Hear my voice, O Elohim, in my meditation; Guard my life from the threats of the enemy.
H8605
תּפלּה
tephillâh
tef-il-law'
From
H6419; intercession, supplication; by implication a hymn: - prayer.
prayer
, 75
2Sa_7:27
, 1Ki_8:28-29 (3), 1Ki_8:38, 1Ki_8:45, 1Ki_8:49, 1Ki_8:54, 1Ki_9:3, 2Ki_20:4-5 (2), 2Ch_6:19-20 (3), 2Ch_6:29, 2Ch_6:35, 2Ch_6:39-40 (2), 2Ch_7:12, 2Ch_7:15, 2Ch_30:27, 2Ch_33:18-19 (2), Neh_1:6, Neh_1:11 (2), Job_16:17 (2), Psa_4:1, Psa_6:9, Psa_17:1 (2), Psa_35:13, Psa_39:12, Psa_42:8, Psa_54:2, Psa_65:1-2 (3), Psa_66:19-20 (2), Psa_69:13, Psa_80:4, Psa_84:8, Psa_86:1, Psa_86:6, Psa_88:2, Psa_88:13, Psa_102:1 (3), Psa_102:17 (2), Psa_109:4, Psa_109:7, Psa_141:2, Psa_141:5, Psa_143:1 (2), Pro_15:8, Pro_15:29, Pro_28:9, Isa_38:4-5 (2), Isa_56:7 (2), Jer_7:16, Jer_11:14, Lam_3:8, Lam_3:44, Dan_9:3, Dan_9:17, Dan_9:21, Jon_2:7, Hab_3:1
prayers, 2
Psa_72:20
, Isa_1:15
G1162
δέησις
deēsis
deh'-ay-sis
From
G1189; a petition: - prayer, request, supplication.
prayer
, 7
Luk_1:13
, Rom_10:1, 2Co_1:11, 2Co_9:14, Phi_1:4, Phi_1:19, Jam_5:16
prayers, 5
Luk_2:37
, Luk_5:33, 2Ti_1:3, Heb_5:7, 1Pe_3:121
G1783
ἔντευξις
enteuxis
ent'-yook-sis
From
G1793; an interview, that is, (specifically) supplication: - intercession, prayer.
Timothy 4:5
5:
for it is set apart by the Word of Elohim and prayer.
G2171
εὐχή
euchē
G2171
εὐχή
euchē
yoo-khay'
From
G2172; properly a wish, expressed as a petition to God, or in votive obligation: - prayer, vow
James 5:15
15:
And the prayer of the belief shall save the sick, and the Master shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven.
G4335
προσευχή
proseuchē
pros-yoo-khay'
From
G4336; prayer (worship); by implication an oratory (chapel): - X pray earnestly, prayer.
Mat_17:21
, Mat_21:13, Mat_21:22, Mar_9:29, Mar_11:17, Luk_6:12, Luk_19:46, Luk_22:45, Act_1:14, Act_3:1, Act_6:4, Act_10:31, Act_12:5, Act_16:13, Act_16:16, Rom_12:12, 1Co_7:5, Eph_6:18, Phi_4:6, Col_4:2, 1Pe_4:7
prayers, 15
Act_2:42
, Act_10:4, Rom_1:9, Rom_15:30, Eph_1:16, Col_4:12, 1Th_1:2, 1Ti_2:1, 1Ti_5:5, Phm_1:4, Phm_1:22, 1Pe_3:7, Rev_5:8, Rev_8:3-4 (2)
G4336
προσεύχομαι
proseuchomai
pros-yoo'-khom-ahee
From
G4314 and G2172; to pray to God, that is, supplicate, worship: - pray (X earnestly, for), make prayer.
pray, 42
Mat_5:44
, Mat_6:5-7 (3), Mat_6:9, Mat_14:23, Mat_19:13, Mat_24:20, Mat_26:36, Mat_26:41, Mar_6:46, Mar_11:24, Mar_13:18, Mar_13:33, Mar_14:32, Mar_14:38, Luk_6:12, Luk_9:28 (2), Luk_11:1-2 (2), Luk_18:1, Luk_18:10, Luk_22:40, Luk_22:46, Act_10:9, Rom_8:26, 1Co_14:13-15 (5), Col_1:9 (2), 1Th_5:17, 1Th_5:25, 2Th_1:11, 2Th_3:1, 1Ti_2:8, Heb_13:18, Jam_5:13-14 (2)
prayed, 25
Mat_26:39
, Mat_26:42, Mat_26:44, Mar_14:35 (2), Mar_14:39, Luk_5:16, Luk_9:29, Luk_18:11, Luk_22:41, Luk_22:44, Act_1:24, Act_6:6, Act_8:15, Act_9:40, Act_10:30, Act_13:3, Act_14:23, Act_16:25, Act_20:36, Act_21:5, Act_22:17, Act_28:8, Jam_5:17-18 (2)
praying, 12
Mar_11:25
, Luk_1:10, Luk_3:21, Luk_9:18, Luk_11:1, Act_11:5, Act_12:12, 1Co_11:4, Eph_6:18, Col_4:3 (2), Jud_1:20
make, 3
Mat_23:14
, Mar_12:40, Luk_20:47
prayeth, 3
Act_9:11
, 1Co_11:5, 1Co_14:14
prayers, 2
Mar_12:40
, Luk_20:47
prayest, 2
Mat_6:5-6
(2)
prayer
, 1
Mat_23:14
H577
אנּה אנּא
'ân'â 'ânnâh
awn'-naw,
awn'-naw
Apparently contracted from
H160 and H4994: oh now!: - I (me) beseech (pray) thee, O.
H1156
בּעה בּעא
be‛â' be‛âh
beh-aw',
beh-aw'
(Chaldee); corresponding to
H1158; to seek or ask: - ask, desire, make [petition], pray, request, seek.
H2470
חלה
châlâh
khaw-law'
A primitive root (compare
H2342, H2490); properly to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat: - beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, X pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (X supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
H2603
חנן
chânan
khaw-nan'
A primitive root (compare
H2583); properly to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (that is, move to favor by petition): - beseech, X fair, (be, find, shew) favour (-able), be (deal, give, grant (gracious (-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon), have pity upon, pray, make supplication, X very.
H3863
לוּ לא לוּא
lû' lû' lû
loo,
loo, loo
A conditional particle; if; by implication (interjectionally as a wish) would that!: - if (haply), peradventure, I
pray thee, though, I would, would God (that).
H4994
נא
nâ'
naw
A primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered I
pray, now or then; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjugation: - I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.
H6279
עתר
‛âthar
aw-thar'
A primitive root (rather denominative from
H6281); to burn incense in worship, that is, intercede (reciprocally listen to prayer): - intreat, (make) pray (-er).
H6293
פּגע
pâga‛
paw-gah'
A primitive root; to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity: - come (betwixt), cause to entreat, fall (upon), make intercession, intercessor, intreat, lay, light [upon], meet (together),
pray, reach, run.
H6419
פּלל
pâlal
paw-lal'
A primitive root; to judge (officially or mentally); by extension to intercede,
pray: - intreat, judge (-ment), (make) pray (-er, -ing), make supplication.
H6739
צלא
tselâ'
tsel-aw'
(Chaldee); probably corresponding to
H6760 in the sense of bowing; pray: - pray.
H7592
שׁאל שׁאל
shâ'al shâ'êl
shaw-al',
shaw-ale'
A primitive root; to inquire; by implication to request; by extension to demand: - ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, X earnestly, enquire, + greet, obtain leave, lend,
pray, request, require, + salute, X straitly, X surely, wish.
H7878
שׂיח
ś
ı̂yach
see'-akh
A primitive root; to ponder, that is, (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence aloud) or (transitively) utter: - commune, complain, declare, meditate, muse,
pray, speak, talk (with).
G1189
δέομαι
deomai
deh'-om-ahee
Middle voice of
G1210; to beg (as binding oneself), that is, petition: - beseech, pray (to), make request. Compare G4441.
G1714
ἐμπρήθω
emprēthō
em-
pray'-tho
From
G1722 and πρήθω prēthō (to blow a flame); to enkindle, that is, set on fire: - burn up.
G2065
ἐρωτάω
erōtaō
er-o-tah'-o
Apparently from
G2046 (compare G2045); to interrogate; by implication to request: - ask, beseech, desire, intreat, pray. Compare G4441.
G2172
εὔχομαι
euchomai
yoo'-khom-ahee
Middle voice of a primary verb; to wish; by implication to
pray to God: - pray, will, wish.
G3870
παρακαλέω
parakaleō
par-ak-al-eh'-o
From
G3844 and G2564; to call near, that is, invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation): - beseech, call for, (be of good) comfort, desire, (give) exhort (-ation), intreat, pray.
G4092
πίμπρημι
pimprēmi
pim'-
pray-mee
A reduplicated and prolonged form of a primary word,
πρέω preō, (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); to fire, that is, burn (figuratively and passively become inflamed with fever): - be (X should have) swollen.
G4248
πρηνής
prēnēs
pray
-nace'
From
G4253; leaning (falling) forward ("prone"), that is, head foremost: - headlong.
G4335
προσευχή
proseuchē
pros-yoo-khay'
From
G4336; prayer (worship); by implication an oratory (chapel): - X pray earnestly, prayer.
G4336
προσεύχομαι
proseuchomai
pros-yoo'-khom-ahee
From
G4314 and G2172; to pray to God, that is, supplicate, worship: - pray (X earnestly, for), make prayer.
G4727
στενάζω
stenazō
sten-ad'-zo
From
G4728; to make (intransitively be) in straits, that is, (by implication) to sigh, murmur, pray inaudibly: - with grief, groan, grudge, sigh.
Genesis 20:7:
"And now, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and let him pray for you and you live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall certainly die, you and all that are yours."
Genesis 32:11:
"Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Ěsaw, for I fear him, lest he come and shall smite me and the mother with the children.
Exodus 8:8:
Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and Aharon, and said, "Pray to
יהוה to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I shall let the people go to slaughter to יהוה."
Exodus 8:9:
And Mosheh said to Pharaoh, "Explain yourself to me: When am I to pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, and remain only in the river?"
Exodus 8:28:
And Pharaoh said, "I am letting you go, then you shall slaughter to
יהוה your Elohim in the wilderness. Only, do not go very far away! Pray for me."
Exodus 8:29:
And Mosheh said, "See, when I leave you I shall pray to
יהוה, and tomorrow the swarms of flies shall depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. But do not let Pharaoh again deceive, not to let the people go to slaughter to יהוה."
Exodus 9:28:
"Pray to
יהוה, for there has been enough of the thunder and hail of Elohim. And I am letting you go, so that you stay no longer."
Exodus 10:17:
"And now, please forgive my sin only this once, and pray to
יהוה your Elohim, that He would only turn away this death from me."
Exodus 34:9:
and said, "If, now, I have found favour in Your eyes, O
יהוה, I pray, let יהוה go on in our midst, even though we are a stiff-necked people. And forgive our crookedness and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance."
Numbers 14:17:
"And now, I pray, let the power of
יהוה be great, as You have spoken, saying,
Numbers 21:7:
Then the people came to Mosheh, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against
יהוה and against you. Pray to יהוה to take away the serpents from us." So Mosheh prayed on behalf of the people.
Deuteronomy 3:25:
‘I pray, let me pass over and see the good land beyond the Yardĕn, this good hill country, and Leb
̱anon.’
Judges 16:28:
And Shimshon called to
יהוה, saying, "O Master יהוה, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, only this time, O Elohim, and let me avenge myself on the Philistines with vengeance for my two eyes!"
1 Samuel 2:25:
"If one man sins against another, Elohim shall judge him. But if a man sins against
יהוה, who shall pray for him?" But they did not listen to the voice of their father, though יהוה was pleased to put them to death.
1 Samuel 7:5:
And Shemu’ĕl said, "Gather all Yisra’ĕl to Mitspah and let me pray to
יהוה for you."
1 Samuel 12:19:
And all the people said to Shemu’ĕl, "Pray for your servants to
יהוה your Elohim, that we do not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil of asking for ourselves a sovereign."
1 Samuel 12:23:
"Also, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against
יהוה in ceasing to pray for you, but I shall teach you the good and straight way.
1 Samuel 23:11:
"Are the landowners of Qe
ʽilah going to surrender me into his hand? Is Sha’ul coming down, as Your servant has heard? O יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, I pray, let Your servant know." And יהוה said, "He is coming down."
2 Samuel 7:27:
"For You, O
יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, have revealed this to Your servant, saying, ‘I build you a house.’ Therefore Your servant has taken heart to pray this prayer to You.
2 Samuel 15:31:
And Dawid
̱ was informed, saying, "Aḥithophel is among the conspirators with Aḇshalom." And Dawiḏ said, "O יהוה, I pray You, make the counsel of Aḥithophel foolish!"
2 Samuel 24:10:
And the heart of Dawid
̱ smote him after he had numbered the people. And Dawiḏ said to יהוה, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, I pray, O יהוה, take away the crookedness of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."
2 Samuel 24:17:
And Dawid
̱ spoke to יהוה when he saw the messenger who was smiting the people, and said, "See, I have sinned, and I have done perversely. But these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house."
1 Kings 8:30:
"Then, shall You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Yisra’ĕl when they pray toward this place, when You hear in Your dwelling place, in the heavens? And shall You hear, and forgive?
1 Kings 8:33:
"When Your people Yisra’ĕl are smitten before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, and they shall turn back to You and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication to You in this House,
1 Kings 8:35:
"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,
1 Kings 8:42:
since they hear of Your great Name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm – and he shall come and pray toward this House,
1 Kings 8:44:
"When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, in the way that You send them, and they shall pray to
יהוה toward the city which You have chosen and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,
1 Kings 8:48:
and they shall turn back to You with all their heart and with all their being in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and shall pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the House which I have built for Your Name,
1 Kings 13:6:
And the sovereign answered and said to the man of Elohim, "Please appease the face of
יהוה your Elohim, and pray for me, that my hand might be restored to me." And the man of Elohim appeased the face of יהוה, and the sovereign’s hand was restored to him, and became as it was before.
1 Kings 17:21:
And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to
יהוה and said, "O יהוה my Elohim, I pray, let the life of this child come back to him."
2 Kings 6:17:
And Elisha prayed, and said, "
יהוה, I pray, open his eyes and let him see." And יהוה opened the eyes of the young man, and he looked and saw the mountain covered with horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Kings 6:18:
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to
יהוה, and said, "Strike this nation with blindness, I pray." And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
2 Kings 19:19:
"And now, O
יהוה our Elohim, I pray, save us from his hand, so that all the reigns of the earth know that You are יהוה Elohim, You alone."
2 Kings 20:3:
"I pray to You, O
יהוה, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what was good in Your eyes." And Ḥizqiyahu wept bitterly.
1 Chronicles 17:25:
"For You, O my Elohim, have revealed to Your servant to build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found courage to pray before You.
1 Chronicles 21:8:
Then Dawid
̱ said to Elohim, "I have sinned greatly, because I have done this matter. But now, I pray, take away the crookedness of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."
1 Chronicles 21:17:
And Dawid
̱ said to Elohim, "Was it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed. But these, the sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, O יהוה my Elohim, be against me and my father’s house, but not against Your people, to be plagued."
2 Chronicles 6:21:
"And shall You give heed to the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Yisra’ĕl, when they pray toward this place, and hear from Your dwelling place, in the heavens, and shall hear and forgive?
2 Chronicles 6:24:
"And if Your people Yisra’ĕl are smitten before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they shall turn back and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication before You in this House,
2 Chronicles 6:26:
"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they shall pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,
2 Chronicles 6:32:
"Also, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Yisra’ĕl, but who comes from a far land for the sake of Your great Name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray in this House,
2 Chronicles 6:34:
"When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, in the way that You send them, and they shall pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,
2 Chronicles 6:38:
and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their being in the land of their captivity, where they have taken them captive, and they shall pray toward their land which You gave to their fathers, and the city which You have chosen, and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,
2 Chronicles 6:40:
"Now, my Elohim, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer of this place.
2 Chronicles 7:14:
and My people upon whom My Name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I shall hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin and heal their land.
Ezra 6:10:
so that they bring pleasing offerings to the Elah of heaven, and pray for the life of the sovereign and his sons.
Nehemiah 1:5:
and I said, "I pray,
יהוה Elohim of the heavens, O great and awesome Ěl, guarding the covenant and kindness with those who love You, and with those guarding Your commands,
Nehemiah 1:11:
"O
יהוה, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who delight to fear Your Name. And let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man." For I was cupbearer to the sovereign.
Job 9:15:
For though I were righteous, I would not answer Him. I pray to Him for my right-ruling.
Job 21:15:
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
Job 42:8:
And now, take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Iyob
̱, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And let My servant Iyoḇ pray for you – for I accept him – lest I punish you; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as did My servant Iyoḇ."
Psalms 5:2:
Attend to the voice of my cry, My Sovereign and my Elohim, For unto You I pray.
Psalms 32:6:
Therefore, let every kind one pray to You While You might be found; Even in a flood of great waters They would not reach him.
Psalms 116:4:
Then I called upon the Name of
יהוה, "O יהוה, I pray to You, deliver my being!"
Psalms 118:25:
I pray, O
יהוה, please save; I pray, O יהוה, please send prosperity.
Psalms 122:6:
Pray for the peace of Yerushalayim, Let those who love You be at rest.
Psalms 142:1:
I cry out to
יהוה with my voice; I pray to יהוה with my voice.
Isaiah 16:12:
And it shall be, when it is seen that Mo’ab
̱ has wearied herself on the high place, that she shall come to her set-apart place to pray, but not be able.
Isaiah 38:3:
and said, "I pray, O
יהוה, please remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your eyes." And Ḥizqiyahu wept bitterly.
Isaiah 45:20:
"Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the gentiles. No knowledge have they who are lifting up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a mighty one that does not save.
Jeremiah 7:16:
"And you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me, for I do not hear you.
Jeremiah 11:14:
"And you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I do not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their evil.
Jeremiah 14:11:
And
יהוה said to me, "Do not pray for this people for their good.
Jeremiah 29:7:
‘And seek the peace of the city where I have exiled you, and pray to
יהוה for it, for in its peace you have peace.’
Jeremiah 29:12:
‘Then you shall call on Me, and shall come and pray to Me, and I shall listen to you.
Jeremiah 37:3:
And Tsid
̱qiyahu the sovereign sent Yehuḵal son of Shelemyah, and the priest, Tsephanyahu son of Maʽasĕyah, to the prophet Yirmeyahu, saying, "Please pray to יהוה our Elohim for us."
Jeremiah 42:2:
and said to Yirmeyahu the prophet, "We beg you, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to
יהוה your Elohim, for all this remnant, for we are few left of many, as your eyes see us.
Jeremiah 42:20:
"For you deceived yourselves when you sent me to
יהוה your Elohim, saying, ‘Pray for us to יהוה our Elohim, and according to all that יהוה your Elohim says, so declare to us and we shall do it.’
Daniel 9:16:
"O
יהוה, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your displeasure and Your wrath be turned away from Your city Yerushalayim, Your set-apart mountain. For, because of our sins, and because of the crookednesses of our fathers, Yerushalayim and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.
Amos 7:2:
And it came to be, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said, "O Master
יהוה, forgive, I pray! How does Yaʽaqoḇ survive, for he is small?"
Jonah 1:14:
And they cried out to
יהוה and said, "We pray, O יהוה, please, let us not perish for this man’s life, and do not lay on us innocent blood. For You, O יהוה, have done as it pleased You."
Zechariah 7:2:
Now Bĕyth Ěl had sent Shar’etser, with Reg
̄em-Meleḵ and his men, to pray before יהוה,
Zechariah 8:21:
and the inhabitants of the one go to another, saying, "Let us earnestly go and pray before
יהוה, and seek יהוה of hosts. I myself am going."
Zechariah 8:22:
‘And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek
יהוה of hosts in Yerushalayim, and to pray before יהוה.’
Matthew 5:44:
"But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those insulting you and persecuting you,
Matthew 6:5:
"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the congregations and on the corners of the streets, to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
Matthew 6:6:
"But you, when you pray, go into your room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.
Matthew 6:9:
"This, then, is the way you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart,
Matthew 9:38:
"Pray then that the Master of the harvest would send out workers to His harvest."
Matthew 14:23:
And having dismissed the crowds, He went up to the mountain by Himself to pray. And when evening had come, He was alone there.
Matthew 19:13:
Then young children were brought to Him to lay His hands on them and pray, and the taught ones rebuked them.
Matthew 24:20:
"And pray that your flight does not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.
Matthew 26:36:
Then
יהושע came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the taught ones, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."
Matthew 26:41:
"Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."
Matthew 26:53:
"Or do you think that I am not able to pray to My Father now, and He shall provide Me with more than twelve legions of messengers?
Mark 6:46:
And having sent them away, He went away to the mountain to pray.
Mark 11:24:
"Because of this I say to you, whatever you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
Mark 13:18:
"And pray that your flight does not take place in winter.
Mark 13:33:
"Take heed, watch and pray, for you do not know when the time is –
Mark 14:32:
And they came to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to His taught ones, "Sit here while I pray."
Mark 14:38:
"Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."
Luke 6:12:
And in those days it came to be that He went out to the mountain to pray, and was spending the night in prayer to Elohim.
Luke 6:28:
"Bless those cursing you, and pray for those insulting you.
Luke 9:28:
And it came to be, about eight days after these words, taking with Him Kĕpha and Yoh
̣anan and Yaʽaqoḇ, He went up to the mountain to pray.
Luke 10:2:
Then He said to them, "The harvest indeed is great, but the workers are few, therefore pray the Master of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.
Luke 11:1:
And it came to be while He was praying in a certain place, as He ceased, one of His taught ones said to Him, "Master, teach us to pray, as Yoh
̣anan also taught his taught ones."
Luke 11:2:
And He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Luke 18:1:
And He spoke a parable to them, that they should always pray and not lose heart,
Luke 18:10:
"Two men went up to the Set-apart Place to pray – the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Luke 18:11:
"The Pharisee stood and began to pray with himself this way, ‘Elohim, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men, swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
Luke 21:36:
"Watch then at all times, and pray that you be counted worthy to escape all this about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Ad
̱am."
Luke 22:40:
And coming to the place, He said to them, "Pray that you do not enter into trial."
Luke 22:46:
And He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into trial."
John 16:26:
"In that day you shall ask in My Name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father on your behalf,
John 17:9:
"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
John 17:15:
"I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the wicked one.
John 17:20:
"And I do not pray for these alone, but also for those believing in Me through their word,
Acts 10:9:
And on the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Kĕpha went up on the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour.
Acts 12:12:
And having realised this, he went to the house of Miryam, the mother of Yoh
̣anan who was also called Mark, where many had gathered to pray.
Acts 26:29:
And Sha’ul said, "Much or little, I pray to Elohim that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become such as I also am, except for these chains."
Romans 8:26:
And in the same way the Spirit does help in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray, but the Spirit Himself pleads our case for us with groanings unutterable.
1 Corinthians 11:13:
Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to Elohim with her head uncovered?
1 Corinthians 14:13:
Therefore, he who is speaking in a tongue, let him pray that he might interpret.
1 Corinthians 14:15:
What then is it? I shall pray with the spirit, and I shall also pray with the understanding. I shall sing with the spirit, and I shall also sing with the understanding.
2 Corinthians 10:2:
But I pray, that when I am present, I might not be bold with that bravery by which I think to be bold against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 13:7:
And we pray to Elohim that you do no evil at all – not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is right, even though we should appear unapproved.
2 Corinthians 13:9:
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong.
And this also we pray for: your perfection.1 Footnote: 1Mt. 5:48.
Ephesians 3:13:
I pray therefore, that you do not lose heart at my pressures on your behalf, which is your esteem.
Philippians 1:4:
In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy,
Philippians 1:9:
And this I pray, that your love might extend more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
1 Thessalonians 5:17:
pray without ceasing,
1 Thessalonians 5:25:
Brothers, pray for us.
2 Thessalonians 1:11:
To this end we always pray for you that our Elohim would count you worthy of this calling, and complete all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of belief with power,
2 Thessalonians 3:1:
For the rest, brothers, pray for us, so that the Word of
יהוה spreads rapidly and be praised, as also with you,
1 Timothy 2:8:
So I resolve that the men pray everywhere, lifting up hands that are set-apart, without wrath and disputing.
Hebrews 13:18:
Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, desiring to behave well in every way.
James 5:13:
Is any of you suffering evil? Let him pray. Is anyone in good spirits? Let him sing psalms.
James 5:14:
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the Name of the Master.
James 5:16:
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, so that you are healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous one accomplishes much.
1 John 5:16:
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin, not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give him life for those not sinning unto death. There is a sin unto death. I do not say that he should pray about that.
3 John 1:2:
Beloved ones, I pray for you to do well in every way, and be in health, as your life is doing well.
Genesis 25:21:
And Yitsh
̣aq prayed to יהוה for his wife, because she was barren. And יהוה answered his prayer, and Riḇqah his wife conceived.
2 Samuel 7:27:
"For You, O
יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, have revealed this to Your servant, saying, ‘I build you a house.’ Therefore Your servant has taken heart to pray this prayer to You.
2 Samuel 21:14:
and buried the bones of Sha’ul and Yehonathan his son in the land of Binyamin in Tsela, in the tomb of Qish his father, and did all that the sovereign commanded. And after that Elohim heard prayer for the land.
1 Kings 8:28:
"Yet, shall You turn to the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O
יהוה my Elohim, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today?
1 Kings 8:29:
"For Your eyes to be open toward this House night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name is there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.
1 Kings 8:38:
whatever prayer, whatever supplication made by anyone of all Your people Yisra’ĕl, each knowing the plague of his own heart, and shall spread out his hands toward this House,
1 Kings 8:45:
then shall You hear in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause?
1 Kings 8:49:
then shall You hear in the heavens Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause,
1 Kings 8:54:
And it came to be, when Shelomoh had ended praying all this prayer and supplication to
יהוה, that he rose up from before the altar of יהוה, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to the heavens.
1 Kings 9:3:
And
יהוה said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me. I have set this house apart which you have built to put My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart shall always be there.
2 Kings 19:4:
‘It could be that
יהוה your Elohim does hear all the words of the Raḇshaqĕh, whom his master the sovereign of Ashshur has sent to reproach the living Elohim, and shall rebuke the words which יהוה your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ "
2 Kings 20:5:
"Return and say to H
̣izqiyahu the leader of My people, ‘Thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Dawiḏ your father, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. See, I am going to heal you. On the third day go up to the House of יהוה.
1 Chronicles 5:20:
And they were helped against them, and the Hag
̄rites were given into their hand, and all who were with them. For they cried out to Elohim in the battle, and He answered their prayer, because they put their trust in Him.
2 Chronicles 6:19:
"Yet, shall You turn to the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O
יהוה my Elohim, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant is praying before You?
2 Chronicles 6:20:
"For Your eyes to be open toward this House day and night, toward the place You have said to put Your Name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place.
2 Chronicles 6:29:
whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Yisra’ĕl, when each one knows his own plague and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this house,
2 Chronicles 6:35:
then shall You hear from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause?
2 Chronicles 6:39:
then shall You hear from the heavens, Your dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You?
2 Chronicles 6:40:
"Now, my Elohim, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer of this place.
2 Chronicles 7:12:
And
יהוה appeared to Shelomoh by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of slaughtering.
2 Chronicles 7:15:
"Now, My eyes are open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
2 Chronicles 30:27:
And the priests, the Lĕwites, rose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard. And their prayer came up to His set-apart dwelling place, to heaven.
2 Chronicles 33:18:
And the rest of the acts of Menashsheh, his prayer to his Elohim, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the Name of
יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕl.
2 Chronicles 33:19:
And his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places where he built high places and set up the Ashĕrim and the carved images, before he was humbled, see, they are written among the words of the seers.
Ezra 8:23:
So we fasted and prayed to our Elohim for this, and He answered our prayer.
Nehemiah 1:6:
please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, for the children of Yisra’ĕl Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Yisra’ĕl which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.
Nehemiah 1:11:
"O
יהוה, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who delight to fear Your Name. And let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man." For I was cupbearer to the sovereign.
Nehemiah 11:17:
and Mattanyah son of Mik
̱a, son of Zaḇdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader who began the thanksgiving with prayer, and Baqbuqyah the second among his brothers, and Aḇda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Yeḏuthun.
Job 15:4:
Indeed, you do away with reverence, and withhold prayer before Ěl.
Job 16:17:
though no violence was on my hand, and my prayer sincere.
Job 22:27:
make your prayer to Him. And He shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
Psalms 4:1:
Answer me when I call, O Elohim of my righteousness! You gave relief to me when I was in distress; Show favour to me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms 6:9:
יהוה
has heard my pleading; יהוה receives my prayer.
Psalms 17:1:
Hear righteousness,
יהוה, Listen to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, From lips without deceit.
Psalms 35:13:
But I, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth; I humbled my being with fastings; And my prayer would return to my own bosom.
Psalms 39:12:
"Hear my prayer, O
יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 42:8:
By day
יהוה commands His kindness, And by night His song is with me; A prayer to the Ěl of my life.
Psalms 54:2:
Hear my prayer, O Elohim; Give ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 55:1:
Give ear to my prayer, O Elohim, And do not hide Yourself from my plea.
Psalms 61:1:
Hear my cry, O Elohim, Listen to my prayer.
Psalms 65:2:
To You who hears all prayer, all flesh comes.
Psalms 66:19:
Truly, Elohim has heard me; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
Psalms 66:20:
Blessed be Elohim, Who has not turned away my prayer, Nor His kindness from me!
Psalms 69:13:
But as for me, my prayer is to You, O
יהוה, At an acceptable time, O Elohim. In the greatness of Your kindness, Answer me in the truth of Your deliverance.
Psalms 72:15:
And He shall live, And the gold of Sheb
̱a be given to Him, And prayer be made for Him continually; Let Him be blessed all day long.
Psalms 80:4:
O
יהוה Elohim of hosts, How long shall You be wroth Against the prayer of Your people?
Psalms 84:8:
O
יהוה Elohim of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ! Selah.
Psalms 86:6:
Give ear, O
יהוה, to my prayer; And listen to the voice of my pleadings.
Psalms 88:2:
Let my prayer come before You, Incline Your ear to my cry.
Psalms 88:13:
But I, unto You I have cried, O
יהוה, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
Psalms 102:1:
O
יהוה, hear my prayer, And let my cry come to You.
Psalms 102:17:
He shall turn unto the prayer of the destitute, And He shall not despise their prayer.
Psalms 109:4:
In return for my love they accuse me, While I am in prayer.
Psalms 109:7:
When he is judged, let him be found wrong, And let his prayer become sin.
Psalms 119:170:
Let my prayer come before You; Deliver me according to Your word.
Psalms 141:2:
Let my prayer be prepared before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.
Psalms 141:5:
Let the righteous one smite me Or reprove me in kindness – It is oil on my head. Let my head not refuse it. My prayer is still against their evil deeds.
Psalms 143:1:
Hear my prayer, O
יהוה, Give ear to my pleadings In Your trustworthiness. Answer me in Your righteousness.
Proverbs 15:8:
The slaughtering of the wrong ones Is an abomination to
יהוה, But the prayer of the straight is His delight.
Proverbs 15:29:
יהוה
is far from the wrong ones, But He hears the prayer of the righteous1. Footnote: 1See 28:9.
Proverbs 28:9:
He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is
an abomination1. Footnote: 1See also 15:29, Isa. 59:1-2, John 9:31, 1 John 3:22.
Isaiah 26:16:
O
יהוה, in distress they shall visit You, they shall pour out a prayer when Your disciplining is upon them.
Isaiah 37:4:
‘It could be that
יהוה your Elohim does hear the words of the Raḇshaqĕh, whom his master the sovereign of Ashshur has sent to reproach the living Elohim, and shall rebuke the words which יהוה your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ "
Isaiah 38:5:
"Go and say to H
̣izqiyahu, ‘Thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Dawiḏ your father, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. See, I am adding fifteen years to your days.
Isaiah 56:7:
them I shall bring to My set-apart mountain, and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their slaughterings are accepted on My altar, for My house is called a house of prayer for all the peoples."
Jeremiah 7:16:
"And you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me, for I do not hear you.
Jeremiah 11:14:
"And you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I do not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their evil.
Lamentations 3:8:
Also, when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:44:
You have wrapped Yourself With a cloud, so that prayer does not pass through.
Daniel 9:3:
So I set my face toward
יהוה the Elohim to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
Daniel 9:17:
"And now, our Elohim, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the sake of
יהוה cause Your face to shine on Your set-apart place, which is laid waste.
Daniel 9:21:
while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gab
̱ri’ĕl, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came close to me, in swift flight about the time of the evening offering.
Jonah 2:7:
"When my life fainted within me, I remembered
יהוה. And my prayer went up to You, into Your set-apart Hĕḵal.
Habakkuk 3:1:
A prayer of H
̣aḇaqquq the prophet, on Shiḡionoth.
Matthew 17:21:
"But this kind does not go out except through prayer and fasting."
Matthew 21:13:
And He said to them, "It has been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ "
Matthew 21:22:
"And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive."
Mark 9:29:
And He said to them, "It is impossible for this kind to come out except through prayer and fasting."
Mark 11:17:
And He was teaching, saying to them, "Has it not been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ "
Luke 1:13:
But the messenger said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zek
̱aryah, for your prayer is heard. And your wife Elisheḇa shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yoḥanan.
Luke 6:12:
And in those days it came to be that He went out to the mountain to pray, and was spending the night in prayer to Elohim.
Luke 19:46:
saying to them, "It has been written, ‘My House is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ "
Luke 22:45:
And rising up from prayer, and coming to His taught ones, He found them sleeping from grief.
Acts 1:14:
All these were continuing with one mind in prayer and supplication, with the women and Miryam the mother of
יהושע, and with His brothers.
Acts 3:1:
And Kĕpha and Yoh
̣anan were going up to the Set-apart Place at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Acts 6:4:
but we shall give ourselves continually to prayer and to serving the Word."
Acts 10:31:
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your kind deeds were remembered before Elohim.
Acts 12:5:
So Kĕpha was indeed kept in prison, but prayer was earnestly made to Elohim on his behalf by the assembly.
Acts 16:13:
And on the Sabbath day we went outside the city by a river, where there used to be prayer. And having sat down we were speaking to the women who met there.
Acts 16:16:
And it came to be, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of Puthon, did meet us, who brought her masters much profit by foretelling.
Romans 10:1:
Truly brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to Elohim for Yisra’ĕl is for deliverance.
Romans 12:12:
rejoicing in the expectancy, enduring under pressure, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
1 Corinthians 7:5:
Do not deprive one another except with agreement for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not try you because of your lack of self-control.
2 Corinthians 1:11:
you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks shall be given by many on our behalf for the favour bestowed upon us through many.
2 Corinthians 9:14:
and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding favour of Elohim in you.
Ephesians 6:18:
praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;
Philippians 1:19:
For I know that this shall turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of
יהושע Messiah,
Philippians 4:6:
Do not worry at all, but in every matter, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to Elohim.
Colossians 4:2:
Continue in prayer, watching therein, with thanksgiving,
1 Timothy 4:5:
for it is set apart by the Word of Elohim and prayer.
James 5:15:
And the prayer of the belief shall save the sick, and the Master shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven.
James 5:16:
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, so that you are healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous one accomplishes much.
Taking all into consideration, being sure to read each scripture in context in your own bible, ask yourself these questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? The answers to these questions will tell you what the bible has to say about prayer. In order to allow for the RUACH HA KODESH to teach HIS full truth to you the reader, I have chosen not to add any of my own comments or conclusions and allow you to come to those on your own. Any comments made in this article are from the International Biblical Encyclopedia and have been added to aid in your mental understanding alone. Shalom!
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia States:
Prayer
prâr
δέησις, déēsis, προσευχή, proseuchḗ, ἔντευξις, énteuxis; for an excellent discussion of the meaning of these see Thayer's Lexicon, p. 126, under the word δέησις, déēsis; the chief verbs are εὔχομαι, eúchomai, προσεύχομαι, proseúchomai, and δέομαι, déomai, especially in Luke and Acts; αἰτέω, aitéō, "to ask a favor" distinguished from ἐρωτάω, erōtáō, "to ask a question," is found occasionally
Hebrews 11:6:
But without belief it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to Elohim has to believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him.
Psalms 30:2:
יהוה
my Elohim, I have cried to You, And You have healed me.
2 Corinthians 12:8:
Concerning this I pleaded with the Master three times to take it away from me.
and on the other "prayers" like that of Hannah,
1 Samuel 2:1-10
1:
And Ḥannah prayed and said, "My heart rejoices in יהוה, my horn has been high in יהוה. My mouth is opened wide over my enemies, for I have rejoiced in Your deliverance.
2:
"There is no one set-apart like יהוה, for there is no one besides You, and there is no rock like our Elohim.
3:
"Do not multiply words so proudly, proudly; let no arrogance come from your mouth, for יהוה is an Ěl of knowledge, and by Him deeds are weighed.
4:
"Bows of the mighty are broken, and those who stumble shall be girded with strength.
5:
"The satisfied have hired themselves out for bread, and the hungry have ceased. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children pines away.
6:
"יהוה puts to death and makes alive, He brings down to the grave and raises up.
7:
"יהוה makes poor and makes rich, He brings low and lifts up.
8:
"He raises the poor from the dust, He lifts the needy from the dunghill, to sit with princes, and make them inherit a throne of esteem. For the supports of the earth belong to יהוה, and He has set the world upon them.
9:
"He guards the feet of His kind ones, but the wrong are silent in darkness, for man does not become mighty by power.
10:
"Those who oppose יהוה are shattered, from the heavens He thunders against them. יהוה judges the ends of the earth, and gives strength to His sovereign, and exalts the horn of His anointed."
Ephesians 3:14-21
14:
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Master יהושע Messiah,
15:
from whom all fatherhood1 in the heavens and earth is named, Footnote: 1Or lineage, or paternal descent.
16:
in order that He might give you, according to the riches of His esteem by power, to be strengthened in the inner man, through His Spirit,
17:
that the Messiah might dwell in your hearts1 through belief – having become rooted and grounded in love, Footnote: 1Gal. 2:20.
18:
in order that you might be strengthened to firmly grasp, with all the set-apart ones, what is the width and length and depth and height,
19:
to know the love of Messiah which surpasses knowledge, in order that you might be filled to all the completeness of Elohim.
20:
And to Him who is able to do exceedingly above what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,
21:
to Him be esteem in the assembly by Messiah יהושע unto all generations, for ever and ever. Amĕn.
1. In the Old Testament:
Genesis 4:26
26:
And to Shĕth, to him also a son was born. And he called his name Enosh. Then it was begun to call on the Name of יהוה1. Footnote: 1The first record of "calling on the Name of יהוה"
Genesis 12:8
8:
And from there he moved to the mountain east of Bĕyth Ěl, and he pitched his tent, with Bĕyth Ěl on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there an altar to יהוה, and called on the Name of יהוה.
Genesis 21:33
33:
And he planted a tamarisk tree in Be’ĕrsheḇa, and there called on the Name of יהוה, the Everlasting Ěl.
Prayer is naive, familiar and direct:
Genesis 15:2
2:
And Aḇram said, "Master יהוה, what would You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliʽezer of Damascus?"
Genesis 17:18
18:
And Aḇraham said to Elohim, "Oh, let Yishmaʽĕl live before You!"
Genesis 18:23
23:
And Aḇraham drew near and said, "Would You also destroy the righteous with the wrong?
Genesis 24:12
12:
And he said, "יהוה, Elohim of my master Aḇraham, please cause her to meet before me this day, and show kindness to my master Aḇraham.
It is associated with sacrifice:
Genesis 12:8
8:
And from there he moved to the mountain east of Bĕyth Ěl, and he pitched his tent, with Bĕyth Ěl on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there an altar to יהוה, and called on the Name of יהוה.
Genesis 13:4
4:
to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Aḇram called on the Name of יהוה.
Genesis 26:25
25:
And he built an altar there, and called on the Name of יהוה, and he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Yitsḥaq dug a well there.
Genesis 28:20-22
20:
And Yaʽaqoḇ made a vow, saying, "Seeing Elohim is with me, and has kept me in this way that I am going, and has given me bread to eat and a garment to put on –
21:
when I have returned to my father’s house in peace, and יהוה has been my Elohim,
22:
then this stone which I have set as a standing column shall be Elohim’s house, and of all that You give me, I shall certainly give a tenth to You."
Exodus 3:4
4:
And יהוה saw that he turned aside to see, and Elohim called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Mosheh! Mosheh!" And he said, "Here I am."
Numbers 11:11-15
11:
so Mosheh said to יהוה, "Why have You done evil to Your servant? And why have I not found favour in Your eyes, to put the burden of all these people on me?
12:
"Was it I who conceived all these people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as the foster father carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers?
13:
"Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat.’
14:
"I am unable to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me.
15:
"And if You are doing this to me, please slay me altogether, if I have found favour in Your eyes, and let me not see my evil!"
Judges 6:13
13:
And Giḏʽon said to Him, "O my master, if יהוה is with us, why has all this come upon us? And where are all His wonders which our fathers related to us, saying, ‘Did not יהוה bring us up from Mitsrayim?’ But now יהוה has left us and given us into the hands of Miḏyan."
Judges 11:30-31
30:
And Yiphtaḥ made a vow to יהוה, and said, "If You give the children of Ammon into my hands,
31:
then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall belong to יהוה, and I shall offer it up as a burnt offering."
1 Samuel 1:11
11:
And she made a vow and said, "O יהוה of hosts, if You would indeed look on the affliction of your female servant and remember me, and not forget your female servant, but shall give your female servant a male child, then I shall give him to יהוה all the days of his life, and let no razor come upon his head."
2 Samuel 15:8
8:
"For your servant vowed a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If יהוה indeed brings me back to Yerushalayim, then I shall serve יהוה.’ "
Psalms 66:13-14
13:
I enter Your house with burnt offerings; I complete my vows to You,
14:
That which my lips have uttered And my mouth spoke in my distress.
Matthew 6:5
5:
"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the congregations and on the corners of the streets, to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
Matthew 23:14
14:
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you eat up widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. Because of this you shall receive greater judgment.
Acts 3:1
1:
And Kĕpha and Yoḥanan were going up to the Set-apart Place at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Acts 16:13
13:
And on the Sabbath day we went outside the city by a river, where there used to be prayer. And having sat down we were speaking to the women who met there.
Deuteronomy 21:1-9
1:
"When anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you to possess, and it is not known who smote him,
2:
then your elders and your judges shall go out, and they shall measure the distance from the slain man to the cities round about.
3:
"And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke,
4:
and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, which is neither ploughed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi.
5:
"And the priests, the sons of Lĕwi, shall come near, for יהוה your Elohim has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the Name of יהוה, and by their mouth every strife and every stroke is tried.
6:
"And let all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi.
7:
"And they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.
8:
‘O יהוה, forgive Your people Yisra’ĕl, whom You have redeemed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of Your people Yisra’ĕl.’ And the blood-guilt shall be pardoned to them.
9:
"Thus you purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst when you do what is right in the eyes of יהוה.
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
1:
"And it shall be, when you come into the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it,
2:
that you shall take some of the first of all the fruits of the soil which you bring from your land that יהוה your Elohim is giving you, and shall put it in a basket and go to the place where יהוה your Elohim chooses to make His Name dwell there.
3:
"And you shall come to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I shall declare today to יהוה your Elohim that I have come to the land which יהוה swore to our fathers to give us.’
4:
"And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and place it before the altar of יהוה your Elohim.
5:
"And you shall answer and say before יהוה your Elohim, ‘My father was a perishing Aramean, and he went down to Mitsrayim and sojourned there with few men. And there he became a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.
6:
‘But the Mitsrites did evil to us, and afflicted us, and imposed hard labour on us.
7:
‘Then we cried out to יהוה Elohim of our fathers, and יהוה heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression.
8:
‘And יהוה brought us out of Mitsrayim with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, with great fear and with signs and wonders.
9:
‘And He brought us to this place and has given us this land, "a land flowing with milk and honey."
10:
‘And now, see, I have brought the first-fruits of the land which You, O יהוה, have given me.’ Then you shall place it before יהוה your Elohim, and bow down before יהוה your Elohim,
11:
and shall rejoice in all the good which יהוה your Elohim has given to you and your house, you and the Lĕwite and the stranger who is among you.
Deuteronomy 21:5
5:
"And the priests, the sons of Lĕwi, shall come near, for יהוה your Elohim has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the Name of יהוה, and by their mouth every strife and every stroke is tried.
Deuteronomy 26:3
3:
"And you shall come to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I shall declare today to יהוה your Elohim that I have come to the land which יהוה swore to our fathers to give us.’
Exodus 32:11-13
11:
But Mosheh pleaded with יהוה his Elohim, and said, "יהוה, why does Your wrath burn against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Mitsrayim with great power and with a strong hand?
12:
"Why should the Mitsrites speak, and say, ‘For evil He brought them out to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from the heat of Your wrath, and relent from this evil to Your people.
13:
"Remember Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Yisra’ĕl, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I increase your seed like the stars of the heavens. And all this land that I have spoken of I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’ "
1 Samuel 7:5-13
5:
And Shemu’ĕl said, "Gather all Yisra’ĕl to Mitspah and let me pray to יהוה for you."
6:
And they gathered to Mitspah and drew water, and poured it out before יהוה. And they fasted that day, and said there, "We have sinned against יהוה." And Shemu’ĕl rightly ruled the children of Yisra’ĕl at Mitspah.
7:
And when the Philistines heard that the children of Yisra’ĕl had gathered together at Mitspah, the princes of the Philistines went up against Yisra’ĕl. And the children of Yisra’ĕl heard of it, and were afraid of the Philistines.
8:
And the children of Yisra’ĕl said to Shemu’ĕl, "Do not cease to cry out to יהוה our Elohim for us, that He would save us from the hand of the Philistines."
9:
And Shemu’ĕl took a suckling lamb and offered it as a burnt offering, completely, to יהוה. And Shemu’ĕl cried out to יהוה for Yisra’ĕl, and יהוה answered him.
10:
And it came to be, as Shemu’ĕl offered up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Yisra’ĕl. But יהוה thundered with a great noise on that day on the Philistines, and troubled them, and they were smitten before Yisra’ĕl.
11:
And the men of Yisra’ĕl went out from Mitspah and pursued the Philistines, and drove them back as far as below Bĕyth Kar.
12:
And Shemu’ĕl took a stone and set it up between Mitspah and Shĕn, and called its name Eḇen Haʽĕzer, saying, "Thus far יהוה has helped us."
13:
Thus the Philistines were humbled, and no longer came into the border of Yisra’ĕl. And the hand of יהוה was against the Philistines all the days of Shemu’ĕl.
1 Samuel 12:23
23:
"Also, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against יהוה in ceasing to pray for you, but I shall teach you the good and straight way.
Exodus 40:1-38
1:
And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,
2:
"On the first day of the first month, you are to raise up the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting,
3:
and shall put in it the ark of the Witness, and screen the ark with the veil.
4:
"And you shall bring in the table and arrange what belongs on it, and bring in the lampstand and light its lamps.
5:
"And you shall set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the Witness, and put up the covering of the door to the Dwelling Place.
6:
"And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting,
7:
and shall set the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and shall put water therein.
8:
"And you shall set up the courtyard all around, and shall place the covering of the courtyard gate,
9:
and shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the Dwelling Place and all that is in it, and shall set it and all its utensils apart, and it shall be set-apart.
10:
"And you shall anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all its utensils, and set the altar apart, and the altar shall be most set-apart.
11:
"And you shall anoint the basin and its stand, and set it apart.
12:
"And you shall bring Aharon and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting and wash them with water.
13:
"And you shall put the set-apart garments on Aharon, and anoint him and set him apart to serve as priest to Me.
14:
"And you shall bring his sons and put long shirts on them,
15:
and shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, and they shall serve as priests to Me. And their anointing shall be for them an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."
16:
And Mosheh did according to all that יהוה had commanded him, so he did.
17:
And it came to be in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the Dwelling Place was raised up.
18:
And Mosheh raised up the Dwelling Place and placed its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and raised up its columns,
19:
and spread the tent over the Dwelling Place and put the covering of the tent on top of it, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
20:
And he took the Witness and put it into the ark, and he put the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the lid of atonement on top of the ark,
21:
and brought the ark into the Dwelling Place, and placed the veil of the covering to screen off the ark of the Witness, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
22:
And he put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the Dwelling Place, outside the veil,
23:
and set the bread in order upon it before יהוה, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
24:
And he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the Dwelling Place,
25:
and lit the lamps before יהוה, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
26:
And he put the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting in front of the veil,
27:
and burned sweet incense on it, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
28:
And he set up the covering to the door of the Dwelling Place.
29:
And he put the altar of burnt offering before the door of the Dwelling Place of the Tent of Meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
30:
And he put the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water therein for washing.
31:
And Mosheh, and Aharon, and his sons washed their hands and their feet with water from it,
32:
as they went into the Tent of Meeting, and as they came near the altar. They would wash, as יהוה had commanded Mosheh.
33:
And he raised up the courtyard all around the Dwelling Place and the altar, and placed the covering of the courtyard gate. And Mosheh completed the work.
34:
And the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the esteem of יהוה filled the Dwelling Place.
35:
And Mosheh was not able to come into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud dwelt on it, and the esteem of יהוה filled the Dwelling Place.
36:
And when the cloud was taken up from above the Dwelling Place, the children of Yisra’ĕl went onward in all their journeys.
37:
But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up.
38:
For the cloud of יהוה was on the Dwelling Place by day, and fire was on it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Yisra’ĕl, in all their journeys.
1 Kings 8:1-66
1:
Then Shelomoh assembled the elders of Yisra’ĕl and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Yisra’ĕl, to Sovereign Shelomoh in Yerushalayim, to bring up the ark of the covenant of יהוה from the City of Dawiḏ, which is Tsiyon.
2:
And all the men of Yisra’ĕl assembled to Sovereign Shelomoh at the festival in the month of Ěythanim, which is the seventh month.
3:
And all the elders of Yisra’ĕl came, and the priests took up the ark,
4:
and brought up the ark of יהוה, and the Tent of Meeting, and all the set-apart utensils that were in the Tent. And the priests and the Lĕwites brought them up,
5:
and Sovereign Shelomoh, and all the congregation of Yisra’ĕl who had assembled with him, were with him before the ark, slaughtering so many sheep and cattle, that they could not be counted or numbered.
6:
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of יהוה to its place, into the Speaking Place of the House, to the Most Set-apart Place, under the wings of the keruḇim,
7:
for the keruḇim spread two wings over the place of the ark, and the keruḇim covered over the ark and its poles.
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And the poles extended so that the ends of the poles were seen from the set-apart place, in front of the Speaking Place, but they were not seen from outside. And they are there to this day.
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There was naught in the ark, only the two tablets of stone which Mosheh put there at Ḥorĕḇ, where יהוה made a covenant with the children of Yisra’ĕl, when they came out of the land of Mitsrayim.
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And it came to be, when the priests came out of the Set-apart Place, that the cloud filled the House of יהוה,
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so that the priests were unable to stand and perform the service because of the cloud, for the esteem of יהוה filled the House of יהוה.
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And Shelomoh said, "יהוה has said He would dwell in the dark cloud.
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I have indeed built You an exalted house, an established place for You to dwell in forever."
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And the sovereign turned around and blessed all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl, while all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl was standing.
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And he said, "Blessed be יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, who spoke with His mouth to my father Dawiḏ, and with His hand has filled it, saying,
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‘Since the day I brought My people Yisra’ĕl out of Mitsrayim, I have chosen no city from any tribe of Yisra’ĕl in which to build a house for My Name to be there, but I chose Dawiḏ to be over My people Yisra’ĕl.’
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"And it was in the heart of my father Dawiḏ to build a house for the Name of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl.
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"But יהוה said to my father Dawiḏ, ‘Because it has been in your heart to build a house for My Name, you did well that it was in your heart.
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‘Only, you do not build the house, but your son, who is coming from your loins, he does build the house for My Name.’
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"Now יהוה has established His word which He spoke, and I have been raised up instead of my father Dawiḏ, and sit on the throne of Yisra’ĕl, as יהוה promised, and built a house for the Name of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl,
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and have appointed there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of יהוה which He made with our fathers, when He brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim."
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And Shelomoh stood before the altar of יהוה in front of all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl, and spread out his hands toward the heavens,
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and said, "יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, there is no Elohim in the heavens above or on earth below like You, guarding Your covenant and kindness with Your servants who walk before You with all their heart,
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who has guarded that which You did promise Your servant Dawiḏ my father. Indeed, You have both spoken with Your mouth and have filled it with Your hand, as it is this day.
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"And now, יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, guard what You promised Your servant Dawiḏ my father, saying, ‘There is not to cease a man of yours before Me, sitting on the throne of Yisra’ĕl – only, if your sons guard their way, to walk before Me as you have walked before Me.’
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"And now, O Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, please let Your word come true which You have spoken to Your servant Dawiḏ my father.
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"For is it true: Elohim dwells on the earth? See, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens are unable to contain You, how much less this House which I have built!
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"Yet, shall You turn to the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O יהוה my Elohim, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today?
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"For Your eyes to be open toward this House night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name is there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.
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"Then, shall You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Yisra’ĕl when they pray toward this place, when You hear in Your dwelling place, in the heavens? And shall You hear, and forgive?
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"If anyone sins against his neighbour, and he has lifted up an oath on him, to cause him to swear, and comes and swears before Your altar in this House,
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then hear in the heavens, and act and rightly rule Your servants, declaring the wrongdoer wrong, bringing his way on his head, and declaring the righteous right by giving him according to his righteousness.
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"When Your people Yisra’ĕl are smitten before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, and they shall turn back to You and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication to You in this House,
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then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your people Yisra’ĕl, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.
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"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,
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then hear in the heavens, and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Yisra’ĕl – for You teach them the good way in which they should walk – and shall give rain on Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.
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"When there is scarcity of food in the land; when there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locusts, grasshoppers; when their enemy distresses them in the land of their cities; any plague, any sickness,
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whatever prayer, whatever supplication made by anyone of all Your people Yisra’ĕl, each knowing the plague of his own heart, and shall spread out his hands toward this House,
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then hear in the heavens, Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and render unto everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know. Because You – You alone – know the hearts of all the sons of men,
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so that they fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.
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"Also, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Yisra’ĕl, but has come from a far land for Your Name’s sake –
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since they hear of Your great Name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm – and he shall come and pray toward this House,
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hear in the heavens Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, so that all peoples of the earth know Your Name and fear You, as do Your people Yisra’ĕl, and know that this House which I have built is called by Your Name.
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"When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, in the way that You send them, and they shall pray to יהוה toward the city which You have chosen and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,
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then shall You hear in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause?
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"When they sin against You – for there is no one who does not sin – and You become enraged with them and give them to the enemy, and they take them captive to the land of the enemy, far or near;
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and they shall turn back unto their heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and shall turn, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned and acted crookedly, we have committed wrong,’
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and they shall turn back to You with all their heart and with all their being in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and shall pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the House which I have built for Your Name,
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then shall You hear in the heavens Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause,
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and forgive Your people who have sinned against You, and all their transgressions which they have transgressed against You? And give them compassion before those who took them captive, and they shall have compassion on them.
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‘For they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out of Mitsrayim, out of the iron furnace.
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"Let Your eyes be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Yisra’ĕl, to listen to them whenever they call to You.
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"For You have separated them unto Yourself for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth, as You spoke by the hand of Your servant Mosheh, when You brought our fathers out of Mitsrayim, O Master יהוה."
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And it came to be, when Shelomoh had ended praying all this prayer and supplication to יהוה, that he rose up from before the altar of יהוה, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to the heavens.
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And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl with a loud voice, saying,
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"Blessed be יהוה, who has given rest to His people Yisra’ĕl, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good word, which He promised through His servant Mosheh.
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"יהוה our Elohim is with us as He was with our fathers – He does not leave us nor forsake us –
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to incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to guard His commands and His laws and His right- rulings, which He commanded our fathers.
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"And let these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before יהוה, be near יהוה our Elohim day and night, to maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Yisra’ĕl, the matter of each day in its day,
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so that all the peoples of the earth might know that יהוה is Elohim, there is no one else.
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"Let your heart therefore be perfect to יהוה our Elohim, to walk in His laws and guard His commands, as at this day."
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And the sovereign and all Yisra’ĕl with him made slaughterings before יהוה.
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And Shelomoh brought peace offerings, which he slaughtered to יהוה, twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. Thus the sovereign and all the children of Yisra’ĕl dedicated the House of יהוה.
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On that day the sovereign set apart the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the House of יהוה, for there he made burnt offerings, and the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before יהוה was too small to contain the burnt offerings, and the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
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And Shelomoh at that time observed the Festival, and all Yisra’ĕl with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Ḥamath to the wadi of Mitsrayim, before יהוה our Elohim, seven days and seven days – fourteen days.
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On the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the sovereign, and went to their tents rejoicing and glad of heart for all the goodness that יהוה had done for His servant Dawiḏ, and for Yisra’ĕl His people.
Exodus 34:34
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But whenever Mosheh went in before יהוה to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. And when he came out he spoke to the children of Yisra’ĕl what he had been commanded,
Deuteronomy 34:10
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And since then no prophet has arisen in Yisra’ĕl like Mosheh, whom יהוה knew face to face,
2 Samuel 7:27
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"For You, O יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, have revealed this to Your servant, saying, ‘I build you a house.’ Therefore Your servant has taken heart to pray this prayer to You.
are to be numbered among the prophets - but he does so in virtue of his office, and on the ground especially of his possession of the Spirit and his intercessory function:
Ezekiel 2:2
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And the Spirit entered into me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet. And I heard Him who was speaking to me.
Jeremiah 14:15
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"Therefore thus said יהוה concerning the prophets who prophesy in My Name, whom I did not send, and who say, ‘Sword and scarcity of food shall not be in this land.’ ‘By sword and scarcity of food those prophets shall be consumed!
Ezra 7:27
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Blessed be יהוה Elohim of our fathers, who has put this in the sovereign’s heart, to embellish the House of יהוה which is in Yerushalayim,
Ezra 8:23
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So we fasted and prayed to our Elohim for this, and He answered our prayer.
Nehemiah 2:4
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And the sovereign said to me, "What are you asking for?" Then I prayed to the Elohim of the heavens,
Nehemiah 4:4
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"Hear, O our Elohim, for we have become despised. And turn back their reproach on their own heads, and give them as a prey in a land of captivity!
Nehemiah 4:9
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But we prayed to our Elohim, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
Daniel 6:10
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And Dani’ĕl, when he knew that the writing was signed, went home and in his upper room with his windows open toward Yerushalayim he knelt down on his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before his Elah, as he had done before.
Ezra 9:6-15
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and said, "O my Elohim, I am too ashamed and wounded to lift up my face to You, my Elohim, for our crookednesses have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.
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"Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been very guilty, and for our crookednesses we, our sovereigns, and our priests have been given into the hand of the sovereigns of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to shame of faces, as it is this day.
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"But now, for a short while, favour has been shown from יהוה our Elohim, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His set-apart place, that our Elohim might enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
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"For we were slaves, but in our bondage our Elohim did not forsake us, and extended kindness to us in the presence of the sovereigns of Persia, to revive us, to raise up the House of our Elohim, to restore its ruins, and to give us a wall in Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim.
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"And now, O our Elohim, what do we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commands,
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which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are going in to possess is a land unclean through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, by their abominations with which they have filled it, from one end to another, by their uncleanness.
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‘And now, do not give your daughters as wives for their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons. And do not seek their peace or wealth ever, so that you are strong, and shall eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.’
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"And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our Elohim have held back the rod upon our crookednesses, and have given us such deliverance as this,
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should we turn back, to break Your commands, and join in marriage with the people of these abominations? Would You not be enraged with us until You had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant or survivor?
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"O יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. See, we are before You, in our guilt, for there is no one to stand before You concerning this!"
Nehemiah 1:5-11
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and I said, "I pray, יהוה Elohim of the heavens, O great and awesome Ěl, guarding the covenant and kindness with those who love You, and with those guarding Your commands,
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please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, for the children of Yisra’ĕl Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Yisra’ĕl which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.
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"We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not guarded the commands, nor the laws, nor the right-rulings which You commanded Your servant Mosheh.
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"Please remember the word that You commanded Your servant Mosheh, saying, ‘If you trespass, I shall scatter you among the peoples,
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but if you shall turn back to Me, and guard My commands and do them, though you were cast out to the end of the heavens, I shall gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen, to make My Name dwell there.’
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"And they are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand.
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"O יהוה, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who delight to fear Your Name. And let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man." For I was cupbearer to the sovereign.
Nehemiah 9:5-38
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Then the Lĕwites, Yĕshua and Qaḏmi’ĕl, Bani, Ḥashaḇneyah, Shĕrĕḇyah, Hoḏiyah, Sheḇanyah, Pethaḥyah, said, "Rise, bless יהוה your Elohim forever and ever! And let them bless Your esteemed Name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise!
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"You are יהוה, You alone. You have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that are on it, the seas and all that are in them, and You give life to them all. And the host of the heavens are bowing themselves to You.
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"You are יהוה, the Elohim who chose Aḇram, and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Aḇraham,
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and found his heart trustworthy before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Kenaʽanites, the Ḥittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Yeḇusites, and the Girgashites – to give it to his seed. And You have established Your words, for You are righteous,
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and saw the affliction of our fathers in Mitsrayim, and heard their cry by the Sea of Reeds,
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and gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land. For You knew that they acted proudly against them. And You made a Name for Yourself, as it is this day.
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"And You split the sea before them, and they passed over into the midst of the sea on the dry land. And their pursuers You threw into the deep as a stone into the mighty waters.
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"And You led them by day with a cloudy column, and by night with a column of fire, to give them light in the way they were to go.
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"And You came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them straight right-rulings and Torah of truth1, good laws and commands. Footnote: 1Traditionally rendered laws of truth, of which we also read in Mal. 2:6, while it is rendered in Rom. 2:20 as the truth in the law.
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"And You made known to them Your set-apart Sabbath, and You commanded them commands and laws and Torot1 , by the hand of Mosheh Your servant. Footnote: 1Torot - plural of Torah - teaching.
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"And You gave them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and brought them water out of the rock for their thirst, and said to them to go in to possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
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"But they and our fathers acted proudly, and hardened their necks, and did not obey Your commands.
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"And they refused to obey, and they remembered not Your wonders that You did among them, and hardened their necks, and in their rebellion they appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a forgiving Eloah, showing favour, and compassionate, patient, and of great kindness, and did not forsake them.
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"Even when they made a moulded calf for themselves, and said, ‘This is your mighty one that brought you up out of Mitsrayim,’ and worked great blasphemies,
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yet You, in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. The column of the cloud did not turn away from them by day to lead them on the way, nor the column of fire by night to give them light in the way they were to go.
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"You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them1, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. Footnote: 1Prov. 1:23, Ezek. 36:27, Zech. 7:12.
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"And for forty years You sustained them in the wilderness – they lacked not. Their garments did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
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"And You gave them reigns and peoples, and apportioned them their lot. So they took possession of the land of Siḥon, and the land of the sovereign of Ḥeshbon, and the land of Oḡ sovereign of Bashan.
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"And You increased their children as the stars of the heavens, and brought them into the land which You had said to their fathers to go in and possess.
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"So the sons went in and possessed the land, and You humbled before them the people of the land, the Kenaʽanites, and gave them into their hands, with their sovereigns and the people of the land, to do with them as they desired.
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"And they captured walled cities and a rich land, and possessed houses filled with all good, cisterns already dug, vineyards, and olive-trees, and fruit trees, in plenty. So they ate and were satisfied and grew fat, and delighted themselves in Your great goodness.
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"But they became disobedient and rebelled against You, and cast Your Torah behind their backs. And they slew Your prophets who had warned them, to bring them back to Yourself. And they worked great blasphemies.
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"Therefore You gave them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them. And in the time of their distress, when they cried to You, You heard from the heavens. And according to Your great compassion You gave them saviours who saved them from the hand of their enemies.
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"But after they had rest, they turned back to do evil before You. Then You left them in the hand of their enemies, so that they ruled over them. But when they turned back and cried out to You, You heard from the heavens, and delivered them according to Your compassion, many times,
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and warned them, to bring them back to Your Torah. But they acted proudly, and did not obey Your commands, and sinned against Your right-rulings, ‘which if a man does, he shall live1 by them.’ And they gave the rebellious shoulder and hardened their necks, and would not hear. Footnote: 1Lev. 18:5, Mt. 19:17, Lk. 10:28 & John 12:50.
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"And You had patience with them for many years, and did warn them by Your Spirit, by the hand of Your prophets, yet they would not give ear. Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
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"But in Your great compassion You did not make an end of them nor forsake them, for You are an Ěl of favour and compassion.
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"And now, our Elohim, the great, the mighty, and awesome Ěl, guarding the covenant and the kindness, let not all the trouble that has come upon us, our sovereigns and our heads, our priests and our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people, from the days of the sovereigns of Ashshur until this day, seem little before You.
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"And in all that has come upon us You are righteous, for You have done truth, but we have done wrong.
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"And our sovereigns, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Your Torah, nor heeded Your commands and Your witnesses, with which You witnessed against them.
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"For they have not served You in their reign, or in Your great goodness that You gave them, or in the large and rich land which You set before them – neither turned back from their evil deeds.
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"See, we are servants today! And the land that You gave to our fathers, to eat its fruit and the good of it, see, we are servants in it!
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"And its rich yield goes to the sovereigns You have set over us, because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
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"And because of all this, we are making a trustworthy pledge, and write it. And our rulers, our Lĕwites, our priests set their seal on it."
Daniel 9:4-19
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And I prayed to יהוה my Elohim, and made confession, and said, "O יהוה, great and awesome Ěl, guarding the covenant and the kindness to those who love Him, and to those who guard His commands.
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"We have sinned and did crookedness, and did wrong and rebelled, to turn aside from Your commands and from Your right-rulings.
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"And we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your Name to our sovereigns, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
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"O יהוה, to You is the righteousness, and to us the shame of face, as it is this day – to the men of Yehuḏah, to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and all Yisra’ĕl, those near and those far off in all the lands to which You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You.
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"O Master, to us is the shame of face, to our sovereigns, to our heads, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
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"To יהוה our Elohim are the compassions and forgivenesses, for we have rebelled against Him.
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"And we have not obeyed the voice of יהוה our Elohim, to walk in His Torot, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
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"And all Yisra’ĕl have transgressed Your Torah, and turned aside, so as not to obey Your voice. So the curse and the oath written in the Torah of Mosheh the servant of Elohim have been poured out on us, for we have sinned against Him.
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"And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our rulers who judged us, by bringing upon us great evil. For under all the heavens there has not been done like what was done to Yerushalayim.
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"As it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, all this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated the face of יהוה our Elohim, to turn back from our crookednesses, and to study Your truth.
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"Hence יהוה has watched over the evil and has brought it upon us. For יהוה our Elohim is righteous in all the works which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.
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"And now, O יהוה our Elohim, who brought Your people out of the land of Mitsrayim with a strong hand, and made Yourself a Name, as it is this day – we have sinned, we have done wrong!
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"O יהוה, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your displeasure and Your wrath be turned away from Your city Yerushalayim, Your set-apart mountain. For, because of our sins, and because of the crookednesses of our fathers, Yerushalayim and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.
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"And now, our Elohim, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the sake of יהוה cause Your face to shine on Your set-apart place, which is laid waste.
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"O my Elohim, incline Your ear and hear. Open Your eyes and see our wastes, and the city which is called by Your Name. For we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great compassions.
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"O יהוה, hear! O יהוה, forgive! O יהוה, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my Elohim, for Your city and Your people are called by Your Name."
Isaiah 63:7-64:12
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Let me recount the kindnesses of יהוה and the praises of יהוה, according to all that יהוה has done for us, and the great goodness toward the house of Yisra’ĕl, which He has done for them according to His compassion, and according to His many kindnesses.
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And He said, "They are My people, children who do not act falsely." And He became their Saviour.
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In all their distress He was distressed, and the Messenger of His Presence saved them. In His love and in His compassion He redeemed them, and He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
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But they rebelled and grieved His Set-apart Spirit, so He turned against them as an enemy, and He fought against them.
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Then He remembered the days of old, Mosheh, His people, "Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Set-apart Spirit within him,
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who led them by the right hand of Mosheh, with His comely arm, dividing the water before them to make for Himself an everlasting Name,
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who led them through the deep? Like a horse in the wilderness they did not stumble."
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As a beast goes down into the valley, and the Spirit of יהוה causes him to rest, so You led Your people, to make Yourself a comely Name.
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Look down from the heavens, and see from Your set-apart and comely dwelling. Where are Your ardour and Your might, the stirring of Your inward parts and Your compassion toward me? Are they withheld?
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For You are our Father, though Aḇraham does not know us, and Yisra’ĕl does not recognise us. You, O יהוה, are our Father, our Redeemer – Your Name is from of old.
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O יהוה, why do You make us stray from Your ways, and harden our heart from Your fear? Turn back, for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your inheritance.
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For a little while Your set-apart people possessed it – our adversaries have trodden down Your set-apart place1. Footnote: 1Ps. 74, Ps. 79, Jer 51:51, Lam. 1:10, Dan. 8:13, Dan. 11:31, Mt. 24:15.
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We have become like those over whom You never ruled – Your Name is not called on them!
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Oh, that You would tear the heavens open, come down, that mountains shall shake before Your ? –
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as when fire burns twigs, as fire makes water boil – to make Your Name known to Your adversaries, so that nations tremble before You.
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When You did awesome matters, which we did not expect, You came down, mountains did shake before You!
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Since the beginning of the ages they have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any Elohim besides You, who acts for those who wait for Him.
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You shall meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers You in Your ways. See, You were wroth when we sinned in them a long time. And should we be saved?
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And all of us have become as one unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as soiled rags. And all of us fade like a leaf, and our crookednesses, like the wind, have taken us away.
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And there is no one who calls on Your Name, who stirs himself up to take hold of You; for You have hidden Your face from us, and have consumed us because of our crookednesses.
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And now, O יהוה, You are our Father. We are the clay, and You our potter. And we are all the work of Your hand.
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Do not be wroth, O יהוה, nor remember crookedness forever. See, please look, all of us are Your people!
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Your set-apart cities have become a wilderness, Tsiyon has become a wilderness, Yerushalayim a waste.
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Our set-apart and comely House, where our fathers praised You, has been burned up with fire. And all that we treasured has become a ruin.
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In view of all this, would You restrain Yourself, O יהוה? Would You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
Psalms 51:1-19
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Show me favour, O Elohim, According to Your kindness; According to the greatness of Your compassion, Blot out my transgressions.
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Wash me completely from my guilt, And cleanse me from my sin.
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For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me.
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Against You, You alone, have I sinned, And done evil in Your eyes; That You might be proven right in Your words; Be clear when You judge.
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See, I was brought forth in crookedness, And in sin my mother conceived me.
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See, You have desired truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You make me know wisdom.
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Cleanse me with hyssop, and I am clean; Wash me, and I am whiter than snow.
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Let me hear joy and gladness, Let the bones You have crushed rejoice.
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Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my crookednesses.
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Create in me a clean heart, O Elohim, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Set-apart Spirit from me.
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Restore to me the joy of Your deliverance, And uphold me, Noble Spirit!
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Let me teach transgressors Your ways, So that sinners turn back to You.
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Deliver me from blood-guilt, O Elohim, Elohim of my deliverance, Let my tongue sing aloud of Your righteousness.
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O יהוה, open my lips, And that my mouth declare Your praise.
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For You do not desire slaughtering, or I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.
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The slaughterings of Elohim are a broken spirit, A heart broken and crushed, O Elohim, These You do not despise.
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Do good in Your good pleasure to Tsiyon; Build the walls of Yerushalayim.
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Then You would delight in slaughterings of righteousness, In burnt offering and complete burnt offering; Then young bulls would be offered on Your altar.
Psalms 130:1-8
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Out of the depths I have cried to You, O יהוה.
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O יהוה, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To the voice of my prayers.
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O Yah, if You should watch crookednesses, O יהוה, who would stand?
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But with You there is forgiveness, That You might be feared.
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I looked to יהוה, My being has looked, And for His word I have waited.
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My being looks to יהוה More than those watching for morning, watching for morning.
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O Yisra’ĕl, wait for יהוה; For with יהוה there is kindness. And with Him is much redemption,
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For He shall redeem Yisra’ĕl From all his crookednesses.
the most heartfelt longing for a living communion with God Himself:
Psalms 42:2
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My being thirsts for Elohim, for the living Ěl. When shall I enter in to appear before Elohim?
Psalms 63:1
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O Elohim, You are my Ěl; I earnestly seek You; My being has thirsted for You; My flesh has longed for You In a dry and thirsty land without water.
Psalms 84:2
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My being has longed, and even fainted, For the courts of יהוה; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living Ěl.
2.Prayer In the New Testament:
Luke 3:21-22
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And it came to be, when all the people were immersed, יהושע also being immersed, and praying, the heaven was opened,
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and the Set-apart Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven saying, "You are My Son, the Beloved, in You I did delight."
Luke 6:12
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And in those days it came to be that He went out to the mountain to pray, and was spending the night in prayer to Elohim.
Luke 9:16
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And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, He blessed and broke them, and gave them to the taught ones to set before the crowd.
Luke 9:29
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And it came to be, as He prayed, the appearance of His face changed, and His garment dazzling white.
Luke 22:32
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"But I have prayed for you, that your belief should not fail. And when you have turned, strengthen your brothers."
Luke 22:39-46
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And coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, according to usage, and His taught ones also followed Him.
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And coming to the place, He said to them, "Pray that you do not enter into trial."
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And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and falling on His knees He was praying,
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saying, "Father, if it be Your counsel, remove this cup from Me. Yet not My desire, but let Yours be done."
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And there appeared a messenger from heaven to Him, strengthening Him.
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And being in agony, He was praying more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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And rising up from prayer, and coming to His taught ones, He found them sleeping from grief.
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And He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into trial."
Luke 23:34-46
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And יהושע said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.
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And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, "He saved others, let Him save Himself if He is the Messiah, the chosen of Elohim."
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And the soldiers were mocking Him too, coming and offering Him sour wine,
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and saying, "If You are the Sovereign of the Yehuḏim, save Yourself."
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And there was also an inscription written over Him in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Heḇrew: THIS IS THE SOVEREIGN OF THE YEHUḎIM.
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And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of Him, saying, "If You are the Messiah, save Yourself and us."
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But the other, responding, rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear Elohim, since you are under the same judgment?
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"And we, indeed, rightly so, for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this One has done no wrong."
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And he said to יהושע, "Master, remember me when You come into Your reign."
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And יהושע said to him, "Truly, I say to you today, you shall be with Me in Paradise."
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And it was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land, until the ninth hour.
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And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the Dwelling Place was torn in two.
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And crying out with a loud voice, יהושע said, "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit." And having said this, He breathed His last.
Matthew 27:46
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And about the ninth hour יהושע cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Ěli, Ěli, lemah sheḇaqtani?" that is, "My Ěl, My Ěl, why have You forsaken Me?"
Luke 11:5-9
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And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,
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since a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I do not have food to set before him,’
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then the one inside answering, says, ‘Do not trouble me, the door is already locked, and my children with me are in bed. I am unable to get up and give to you’?
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"I say to you, if he does not get up and give to him because he is his friend, he shall get up and give him as many as he needs because of his persistence.
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"And I say to you: ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
Luke 18:1-14
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And He spoke a parable to them, that they should always pray and not lose heart,
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saying, "In a certain city there was a certain judge, not fearing Elohim nor regarding man.
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"And a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, ‘Do right to me on my adversary.’
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"And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself, ‘Even if I do not fear Elohim nor regard man,
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yet because this widow troubles me I shall do right to her, lest by her continual coming she wears me out.’ "
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And the Master said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge said.
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"And shall Elohim not do right by all means to His own chosen ones who are crying out day and night to Him, and being patient over them?
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"I say to you that He shall do right to them speedily. But when the Son of Aḏam comes, shall He find the belief on the earth?"
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And He also spoke this parable to some who relied on themselves that they were righteous, and looking down on others:
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"Two men went up to the Set-apart Place to pray – the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
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"The Pharisee stood and began to pray with himself this way, ‘Elohim, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men, swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
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‘I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess.’
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"But the tax collector standing at a distance would not even raise his eyes to the heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘Elohim, show favour unto me, a sinner!’
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"I say to you, this man went down to his house declared right, rather than the other. For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted."
Matthew 5:44-45
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"But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those insulting you and persecuting you,
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so that you become sons of your Father in the heavens. Because He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 6:35, Acts 14:16-17.
Matthew 6:5-8
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"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the congregations and on the corners of the streets, to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
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"But you, when you pray, go into your room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.
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"And when praying, do not keep on babbling like the gentiles. For they think that they shall be heard for their many words.
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"Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
Matthew 7:7-11
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"Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
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"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.
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"Or is there a man among you who, if his son asks for bread, shall give him a stone?
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"Or if he asks for a fish, shall he give him a snake?
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"If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew 9:38
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"Pray then that the Master of the harvest would send out workers to His harvest."
Matthew 17:19-21
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Then the taught ones came to יהושע by Himself and said, "Why were we unable to cast him out?"
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And יהושע said to them, "Because of your unbelief, for truly, I say to you, if you have belief as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it shall move. And no matter shall be impossible for you.
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"But this kind does not go out except through prayer and fasting."
Matthew 18:19-20
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"Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning any matter that they ask, it shall be done for them by My Father in the heavens.
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"For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there I am in their midst."
Matthew 21:21-22
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And יהושע answering, said to them, "Truly, I say to you, if you have belief and do not doubt, you shall not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be thrown into the sea,’ it shall be done.
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"And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive."
Matthew 24:20
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"And pray that your flight does not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.
Matthew 26:41
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"Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."
Matthew 6:7-8
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"And when praying, do not keep on babbling like the gentiles. For they think that they shall be heard for their many words.
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"Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
Matthew 7:11
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"If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew 7:11
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"If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew 6:10
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let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 26:39
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And going forward a little, He fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I desire, but as You desire."
Matthew 26:42
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Again He went away, a second time, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is impossible for this to pass unless I drink it, let Your desire be done."
1 John 5:14
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And this is the boldness that we have in Him, that if we ask whatever according to His desire, He hears us.
Matthew 7:7-11
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"Ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
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"For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.
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"Or is there a man among you who, if his son asks for bread, shall give him a stone?
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"Or if he asks for a fish, shall he give him a snake?
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"If you then, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give what is good to those who ask Him!
Matthew 21:22
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"And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive."
Matthew 6:9-13
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"This, then, is the way you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart,
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let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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‘Give us today our daily bread.
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‘And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
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‘And do not lead us into trial,1 but deliver us from the wicked one – because Yours is the reign and the power and the esteem, forever. Amĕn.’ Footnote: 1See 26:41.
Luke 11:2-4
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And He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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"Give us day by day our daily bread.
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"And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into trial, but rescue us from the wicked one."
John 16:23
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"And in that day you shall ask Me none at all. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My Name He shall give you.
John 16:24
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"Until now you have asked naught in My Name. Ask, and you shall receive, in order that your joy might be complete.
John 16:26-27
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"In that day you shall ask in My Name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father on your behalf,
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for the Father Himself does love you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from Elohim.
John 17:19
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"And for them I set Myself apart, so that they too might be set apart in truth.
Hebrews 4:14-16
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Therefore, since we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, יהושע the Son of Elohim, let us hold fast our confession.
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For we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was tried in all respects as we are, apart from sin.
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Therefore, let us come boldly to the throne of favour, in order to receive compassion, and find favour for timely help.
Hebrews 10:19-22
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So, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Set-apart Place by the blood of יהושע,
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by a new and living way which He instituted for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
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and having a High Priest over the House of Elohim,
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let us draw near with a true heart in completeness of belief, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with clean water.
John 15:7
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"If you stay in Me, and My Words stay in you, you shall ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.
1 John 3:22
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And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we guard His commands and do what is pleasing in His sight.1 Footnote: 1Prov. 28:9, John 9:31, Jm. 5:16.
1 John 5:13
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I have written this to you who believe in the Name of the Son of Elohim, so that you know that you possess everlasting life, and so that you believe in the Name of the Son of Elohim.
Acts 1:14
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All these were continuing with one mind in prayer and supplication, with the women and Miryam the mother of יהושע, and with His brothers.
Acts 2:1
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And when the Day of the Festival of Weeks had come, they were all with one mind in one place.
Acts 2:42
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And they were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the emissaries, and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers.
Acts 3:1
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And Kĕpha and Yoḥanan were going up to the Set-apart Place at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Acts 6:4
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but we shall give ourselves continually to prayer and to serving the Word."
Acts 6:6
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whom they set before the emissaries. And when they had prayed, they laid hands on them.
Romans 1:9
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For Elohim is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Good News of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,
Ephesians 1:16
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do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
Philippians 1:9
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And this I pray, that your love might extend more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
1 Thessalonians 1:2
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We give thanks to Elohim always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,
Romans 12:12
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rejoicing in the expectancy, enduring under pressure, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
Ephesians 6:18
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praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;
Philippians 1:9-11
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And this I pray, that your love might extend more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
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for you to examine the matters that differ, in order to be sincere, and not stumbling, until the day of Messiah,
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being filled with the fruit of righteousness,1 through יהושע Messiah, to the esteem and praise of Elohim. Footnote: 1Mt. 3:8-10, Rom. 6:22, Rom. 14:17, 2 Cor. 9:10, Eph. 5:9, Gal. 5:22, Col. 1:10, Heb. 12:11, Jam. 3:18.
1 Thessalonians 1:2
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We give thanks to Elohim always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,
Romans 12:12
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rejoicing in the expectancy, enduring under pressure, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
Ephesians 6:13-20
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Because of this, take up the complete armour of Elohim, so that you have power to withstand in the wicked day, and having done all, to stand.
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Stand, then, having girded your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
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and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;
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above all, having taken up the shield of belief with which you shall have power to quench all the burning arrows of the wicked one.
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Take also the helmet of deliverance, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim,1 Footnote: 1Isa. 59:21.
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praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;
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also for me, that a word might be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to be bold in making known the secret of the Good News,
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for which I am an envoy in chains, that in it I might speak boldly, as I should speak.
Philippians 4:6
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Do not worry at all, but in every matter, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to Elohim.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
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Rejoice always,
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pray without ceasing,
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in all circumstances give thanks, for this is the desire of Elohim in Messiah יהושע for you.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
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And if I have prophecy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all belief, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am none at all.
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And if I give out all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.
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Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up,
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does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil,
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does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth,
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it covers all, believes all, expects all, endures all.
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Love never fails. And whether there be prophecies, they shall be inactive; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be inactive.
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For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
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But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive.
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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish matters.
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For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known.
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And now belief, expectation, and love remain – these three. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 14:1-19
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Pursue love, and earnestly seek the spiritual gifts, but rather that you prophesy.
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For he who is speaking in a tongue does not speak to men but to Elohim, for no one understands, but in the Spirit he speaks secrets.
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But he who is prophesying speaks upbuilding and encouragement and comfort to men.
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He who is speaking in a tongue builds up himself, but he who is prophesying builds up the assembly.
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Now I wish you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you might prophesy, for he who is prophesying is greater than he who is speaking with tongues, unless he interprets, so that the assembly might receive upbuilding.
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But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you, either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by teaching?
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Nevertheless, lifeless instruments making a sound, whether flute or harp, if they do not make a distinction in the sound, how shall it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?
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For indeed, if the trumpet makes an indistinct sound, who shall prepare himself for battle?
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So also you, if you do not give speech by the tongue that is clear, how shall it be known what is spoken? For you shall be speaking into the air.
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There are, undoubtedly, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none of them is without distinct sound.
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If then I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks be a foreigner to me.
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So also you, since you are ardent for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in the upbuilding of the assembly.
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Therefore, he who is speaking in a tongue, let him pray that he might interpret.
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For if I am praying in a tongue, my spirit is praying, but my understanding is without fruit.
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What then is it? I shall pray with the spirit, and I shall also pray with the understanding. I shall sing with the spirit, and I shall also sing with the understanding.
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Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how shall he who fills up the place of the unlearned say "Amĕn" at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you say?
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For you truly give thanks well, but the other is not built up.
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I thank my Elohim I speak with tongues more than you all,
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but in an assembly I wish to speak five words with my understanding that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Ephesians 6:17-20
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Take also the helmet of deliverance, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim,1 Footnote: 1Isa. 59:21.
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praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;
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also for me, that a word might be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to be bold in making known the secret of the Good News,
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for which I am an envoy in chains, that in it I might speak boldly, as I should speak.
Jude 1:20
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But you, beloved ones, building yourselves up on your most set-apart belief, praying in the Set-apart Spirit,
John 14:10-21
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"Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak from Myself. But the Father who stays in Me does His works.
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"Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, otherwise believe Me because of the works themselves.
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"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he shall do also. And greater works than these he shall do, because I go to My Father.
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"And whatever you ask in My Name, that I shall do, in order that the Father might be esteemed in the Son.
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"If you ask whatever in My Name, I shall do it.
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"If you love Me, you shall guard My commands.1 Footnote: 1See Ex. 20:6, vv. 21&23, 1 John 5:2-3, 2 John v. 6.
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"And I shall ask the Father, and He shall give you another Helper, to stay with you forever –
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the Spirit of the Truth, whom the world is unable to receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, for He stays with you and shall be in you.
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"I shall not leave you orphans – I am coming to you.
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"Yet a little while, and the world no longer sees Me, but you shall see Me, because I live, and you shall live.
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"In that day you shall know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
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"He who possesses My commands and guards them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and manifest Myself to him."
Romans 8:1-39
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There is, then, now no condemnation to those who are in Messiah יהושע, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
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For the Torah of the Spirit of the life in Messiah יהושע has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
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For the Torah being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim, having His own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin, and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
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so that the righteousness of the Torah should be completed in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
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For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the matters of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the matters of the Spirit.
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For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.
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Because the mind of the flesh is enmity towards Elohim, for it does not subject itself1 to the Torah of Elohim2, neither indeed is it able, Footnotes: 1Or does not obey. 2John 15:5, 1 John 4:4, 1 John 3:9, 1 John 5:18.
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and those who are in the flesh are unable to please Elohim.
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But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Messiah, this one is not His.
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And if Messiah is in you, the body is truly dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness.
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And if the Spirit of Him who raised יהושע from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Messiah from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit dwelling in you.
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So then, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
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For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
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For as many as are led by the Spirit of Elohim, these are sons of Elohim.
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For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."
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The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of Elohim,
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and if children, also heirs – truly heirs of Elohim, and co-heirs with Messiah, if indeed we suffer with Him, in order that we also be exalted together.
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For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the esteem that is to be revealed in us.
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For the intense longing1 of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of Elohim. Footnote: 1Lit. anxiously looking with outstretched head.
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For the creation was subjected to futility, not from choice, but because of Him who subjected it, in anticipation,
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that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage to corruption into the esteemed freedom of the children of Elohim.
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For we know that all the creation groans together, and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
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And not only so, but even we ourselves who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we ourselves also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
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For in this expectation we were saved, but expectation that is seen is not expectation, for when anyone sees, does he expect it?
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And if we expect what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.
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And in the same way the Spirit does help in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray, but the Spirit Himself pleads our case for us with groanings unutterable.
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And He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the set-apart ones according to Elohim.
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And we know that all matters work together for good to those who love Elohim, to those who are called according to His purpose.
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Because those whom He knew beforehand, He also ordained beforehand to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, for Him to be the first-born among many brothers.
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And whom He ordained beforehand, these He also called, and whom He called, these He also declared right. And whom He declared right, these He also esteemed.
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What then shall we say to this? If Elohim is for us, who is against us?
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Truly, He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all – how shall He not, along with Him, freely give us all else?
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Who shall bring any charge against Elohim’s chosen ones? It is Elohim who is declaring right.
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Who is he who is condemning? It is Messiah who died, and furthermore is also raised up, who is also at the right hand of Elohim, who also makes intercession for us.
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Who shall separate us from the love of the Messiah? Shall pressure, or distress, or persecution, or scarcity of food, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
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As it has been written, "For Your sake we are killed all day long, we are reckoned as sheep of slaughter."
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But in all this we are more than overcomers through Him who loved us.
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For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor messengers nor principalities nor powers, neither the present nor the future,
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nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of Elohim which is in Messiah יהושע our Master.
Galatians 4:1-31
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And I say, for as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, though he is master of all,
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but is under guardians and trustees till the time prearranged by the father.
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So we also, when we were children, were under the elementary matters of the world, being enslaved.
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But when the completion of the time came, Elohim sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under Torah,
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to redeem those who were under Torah, in order to receive the adoption as sons.
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And because you are sons, Elohim has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba, Father!"
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So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir of Elohim through Messiah.
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But then, indeed, not knowing Elohim, you served those which by nature are not mighty ones.
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But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elementary matters,1 to which you wish to be enslaved again? Footnote: 1See v.3, Col. 2:8 & 20.
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You observe days and months and seasons and years.
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I fear for you, lest by any means I have laboured for you in vain.
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Brothers, I beg you to become as I am, because I am as you are. You did not wrong me at all.
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But you know that through weakness of the flesh I brought the Good News to you before.
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And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as a messenger of Elohim, as Messiah יהושע.
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What then was your blessedness? For I bear you witness, that if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.
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So then, have I become your enemy, speaking truth to you?
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They are ardent towards you, for no good, but they wish to shut you out, that you might be ardent towards them.
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And it is good always to be ardent in what is good, and not only when I am present with you.
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My little children, for whom I am again in birth pains until Messiah is formed in you,
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even now I wish to be present with you now and to change my voice, for I have doubts about you.
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Say to me, you who wish to be under Torah, do you not hear the Torah?
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For it has been written that Aḇraham had two sons, one by a female servant, the other by a free woman.
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But he who was of the female servant was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman through promise.
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This is allegorical, for these are the two covenants: one indeed from Mount Sinai which brings forth slavery, which is Haḡar,
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for this Haḡar is Mount Sinai in Araḇia, and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in slavery with her children.
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But the Yerushalayim above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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For it has been written, "Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who do not have birth pains! For the deserted one has many more children than she who has a husband."
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And we, brothers, as Yitsḥaq was, are children of promise.
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But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him born according to the Spirit, so also now.
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But what does the Scripture say? "Cast out the female servant and her son, for the son of the female servant shall by no means be heir with the son of the free woman."
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Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female servant but of the free woman.
Prayers of Jesus
prârz
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1. The Lord's Prayer
2. Christ's Doctrine of Prayer: Sacredness, Importunity, Conditions
3. Prayers Offered by Christ
(1) The High-priestly Prayer
(2) The Prayer in Gethsemane
(3) The Prayers on the Cross
(4) Prayer after the Resurrection
(5) General Conclusions
In the history and doctrine of prayer, nothing is more important than the light shed upon the subject by the prayers of Jesus. These are to be studied in connection with His teaching concerning prayer found in the model of the Lord's Prayer, and general statements and hints to His disciples.
1. The Lord's Prayer:
This model of prayer is given in two forms:
Matthew 6:9-13
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"This, then, is the way you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart,
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let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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‘Give us today our daily bread.
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‘And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
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‘And do not lead us into trial,1 but deliver us from the wicked one – because Yours is the reign and the power and the esteem, forever. Amĕn.’ Footnote: 1See 26:41.
Luke 11:2-4
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And He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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"Give us day by day our daily bread.
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"And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into trial, but rescue us from the wicked one."
The differences of form show that exactness of similarity in words is not essential. The prayer includes adoration, supplication for the Kingdom, for personal needs, for forgiveness, for deliverance from temptation and the ascription of glory. It is at once individual and universal; it sets the recognition of divine things first, and yet clearly asserts the ethical and social relations of life. See &LORD'S PRAYER, THE.
2. Christ's Doctrine of Prayer: Sacredness, Importunity, Conditions:
Matthew 6:5
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"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the congregations and on the corners of the streets, to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
Matthew 6:6
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"But you, when you pray, go into your room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.
Luke 11:5-9
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And He said to them, "Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,
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since a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I do not have food to set before him,’
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then the one inside answering, says, ‘Do not trouble me, the door is already locked, and my children with me are in bed. I am unable to get up and give to you’?
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"I say to you, if he does not get up and give to him because he is his friend, he shall get up and give him as many as he needs because of his persistence.
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"And I say to you: ask and it shall be given to you, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you.
Luke 18:1-8
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And He spoke a parable to them, that they should always pray and not lose heart,
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saying, "In a certain city there was a certain judge, not fearing Elohim nor regarding man.
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"And a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, ‘Do right to me on my adversary.’
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"And he would not for a while, but afterward he said within himself, ‘Even if I do not fear Elohim nor regard man,
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yet because this widow troubles me I shall do right to her, lest by her continual coming she wears me out.’ "
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And the Master said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge said.
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"And shall Elohim not do right by all means to His own chosen ones who are crying out day and night to Him, and being patient over them?
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"I say to you that He shall do right to them speedily. But when the Son of Aḏam comes, shall He find the belief on the earth?"
Luke 18:9-14
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And He also spoke this parable to some who relied on themselves that they were righteous, and looking down on others:
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"Two men went up to the Set-apart Place to pray – the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
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"The Pharisee stood and began to pray with himself this way, ‘Elohim, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men, swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
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‘I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I possess.’
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"But the tax collector standing at a distance would not even raise his eyes to the heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘Elohim, show favour unto me, a sinner!’
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"I say to you, this man went down to his house declared right, rather than the other. For everyone who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted."
Matthew 6:7-8
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"And when praying, do not keep on babbling like the gentiles. For they think that they shall be heard for their many words.
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"Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
Mark 11:24-26
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"Because of this I say to you, whatever you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
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"And whenever you stand praying, if you hold whatever against anyone, forgive, so that your Father in the heavens shall also forgive you your trespasses.
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"But if you do not forgive, neither shall your Father in the heavens forgive your trespasses."
Matthew 18:19-20
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"Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning any matter that they ask, it shall be done for them by My Father in the heavens.
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"For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there I am in their midst."
John 14:13-16
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"And whatever you ask in My Name, that I shall do, in order that the Father might be esteemed in the Son.
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"If you ask whatever in My Name, I shall do it.
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"If you love Me, you shall guard My commands.1 Footnote: 1See Ex. 20:6, vv. 21&23, 1 John 5:2-3, 2 John v. 6.
3. Prayers Offered by our messiah:
Matthew 11:25
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At that time יהושע responding, said, "I thank You, Father, Master of the heavens and earth, because You have hidden these matters from clever and learned ones and have revealed them to babes.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 10:21.
Matthew 11:26
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"Yea, Father, because so it was well-pleasing in Your sight.
Matthew 14:23
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And having dismissed the crowds, He went up to the mountain by Himself to pray. And when evening had come, He was alone there.
Matthew 15:36
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and taking the seven loaves and the fish, giving thanks, He broke them and gave to His taught ones, and the taught ones to the crowd.
Matthew 14:19
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And commanding the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the taught ones. And the taught ones gave to the crowds,
Matthew 17:21
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"But this kind does not go out except through prayer and fasting."
Mark 7:34
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And looking up to the heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened."
John 11:41
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So they took away the stone where the dead man was laid. And יהושע lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
John 11:42
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"And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing by I said this, in order that they believe that You sent Me."
Matthew 19:13
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Then young children were brought to Him to lay His hands on them and pray, and the taught ones rebuked them.
Matthew 19:14
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But יהושע said, "Allow the young children and do not stop them from coming to Me, for of such is the reign of the heavens."
Matthew 19:15
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And having laid hands on them He went from there.
Matthew 26:26
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And as they were eating, יהושע took bread, and having blessed, broke and gave it to the taught ones and said, "Take, eat, this is My body."
(1) The High-Priestly Prayer.
John 17:1-26
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יהושע said these words, and lifted up His eyes to the heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come. Esteem Your Son, so that Your Son also might esteem You,
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as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give everlasting life to all whom You have given Him.
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"And this is everlasting life, that they should know You, the only true Elohim, and יהושע Messiah whom You have sent.
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"I have esteemed You on the earth, having accomplished the work You have given Me that I should do.
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"And now, esteem Me with Yourself, Father, with the esteem which I had with You before the world was.
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"I have revealed Your Name to the men whom You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours, and You gave them to Me, and they have guarded Your Word.1 Footnote: 1See Ps. 138:2.
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"Now they have come to know that all You gave to Me, is from You.
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"Because the Words which You gave to Me, I have given to them. And they have received them, and have truly known that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
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"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
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"And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I have been esteemed in them.
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"And I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Set-apart Father, guard them in Your Name which You have given Me, so that they might be one,1 as We are. Footnote: 1See 10:30.
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"When I was with them in the world, I was guarding them in Your Name which You have given Me, and I watched over them, and not one of them perished except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be filled.
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"And now I come to You. And I speak these words in the world, so that they have My joy completed in them.
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"I have given them Your Word, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
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"I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the wicked one.
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"They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
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"Set them apart in Your truth – Your Word is truth.1 Footnote: 1See Ps. 119:142, 151.
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"As You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world.
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"And for them I set Myself apart, so that they too might be set apart in truth.
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"And I do not pray for these alone, but also for those believing in Me through their word,
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so that they all might be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, so that they too might be one in Us, so that the world might believe that You have sent Me.
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"And the esteem which You gave Me I have given them, so that they might be one as We are one,
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"I in them, and You in Me, so that they might be perfected into one, so that the world knows that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
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"Father, I desire that those whom You have given Me, might be with Me where I am, so that they see My esteem which You have given Me, because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.
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"O righteous Father, indeed the world did not know You, but I knew You, and these knew that You sent Me.
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"And I have made Your Name known to them, and shall make it known,1 so that the love with which You loved Me might be in them, and I in them." Footnote: 1See v. 6, Ps. 22:22, Heb. 2:12.
(2) The Prayer in Gethsemane.
Matthew 26:36-44
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Then יהושע came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the taught ones, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."
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And He took with Him Kĕpha and the two sons of Zaḇdai, and He began to be grieved and deeply distressed.
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Then He said to them, "My being is exceedingly grieved, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me."
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And going forward a little, He fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I desire, but as You desire."
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And He came to the taught ones and found them asleep, and said to Kĕpha, "So, were you not able to watch with Me one hour?
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"Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."
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Again He went away, a second time, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is impossible for this to pass unless I drink it, let Your desire be done."
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And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
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And He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.
Mark 14:22-40
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And as they were eating, יהושע took bread, having blessed, broke it, gave it to them and said, "Take, eat, this is My body."
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And taking the cup, giving thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
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And He said to them, "This is My blood, that of the renewed covenant, which is shed for many.
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"Truly, I say to you, I shall certainly no more drink of the fruit of the vine till that day when I drink it anew in the reign of Elohim."
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And having sung a song, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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And יהושע said to them, "All of you shall stumble in Me this night, for it has been written, ‘I shall strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.’
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"But after I am raised, I shall go before you to Galil."
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And Kĕpha said to Him, "Even if all shall stumble, yet not I."
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And יהושע said to him, "Truly, I say to you that today, this night, before the cock shall crow twice, you shall deny Me three times."
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But he spoke more strongly, "If I have to die with You, I shall not deny You!" And they all said the same.
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And they came to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to His taught ones, "Sit here while I pray."
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And He took with Him Kĕpha, and Yaʽaqoḇ, and Yoḥanan, and He began to be greatly amazed, and to be deeply distressed.
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And He said to them, "My being is exceedingly grieved, even to death. Stay here and watch."
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And He went on a little, and fell on the ground, and was praying that if it were possible, the hour might pass from Him.
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And He said, "Abba, Father, all is possible for You. Make this cup pass from Me. Yet not what I desire, but what You desire."
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And He came and found them sleeping, and said to Kĕpha, "Shimʽon, are you sleeping? You were not able to watch one hour!
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"Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."
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And again He went away and prayed, and spoke the same words.
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And having returned, He found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.
Luke 22:39-46
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And coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, according to usage, and His taught ones also followed Him.
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And coming to the place, He said to them, "Pray that you do not enter into trial."
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And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and falling on His knees He was praying,
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saying, "Father, if it be Your counsel, remove this cup from Me. Yet not My desire, but let Yours be done."
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And there appeared a messenger from heaven to Him, strengthening Him.
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And being in agony, He was praying more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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And rising up from prayer, and coming to His taught ones, He found them sleeping from grief.
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And He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into trial."
Hebrews 5:1-10
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For every priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in matters relating to Elohim, to offer both gifts and offerings for sins,
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being able to have a measure of feeling for those not knowing and being led astray, since he himself is also surrounded by weakness.
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And on account of this he has to offer for sins – as for the people, so also for himself.
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And no one obtains this esteem for himself, but he who is called by Elohim, even as Aharon also was.
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So also the Messiah did not extol Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him, "You are My Son, today I have brought You forth."1 Footnote: 1See 1:5, Ps. 2:7.
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As He also says in another place, "You are a priest forever according to the order of Malkitseḏeq,"1 Footnote: 1Ps. 110:4.
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who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His reverent fear,
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though being a Son, He learned obedience by what He suffered.
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And having been perfected, He became the Causer of everlasting deliverance to all those obeying Him,
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having been designated by Elohim a High Priest "according to the order of Malkitseḏeq,"
2 Corinthians 12:8
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Concerning this I pleaded with the Master three times to take it away from me.
(3) The Prayers on the Cross.
Matthew 27:46
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And about the ninth hour יהושע cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Ěli, Ěli, lemah sheḇaqtani?" that is, "My Ěl, My Ěl, why have You forsaken Me?"
Mark 15:34
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And at the ninth hour יהושע cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Ěli, Ěli, lamah sheḇaqtani?"1 which is translated, "My Ěl, My Ěl, why have You forsaken Me?" Footnote: 1In Hebrew - "Eli, Eli lamah azaḇtani" - as per Ps. 22:1.
Psalms 22:1
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My Ěl, My Ěl, why have You forsaken Me – Far from saving Me, far from the words of My groaning?
Luke 23:34
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And יהושע said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.
Luke 23:46
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And crying out with a loud voice, יהושע said, "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit." And having said this, He breathed His last.
(4) Prayer After the Resurrection.
Luke 24:30
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And it came to be, when He sat at the table with them, having taken the bread, He blessed, and having broken, He was giving it to them.
Luke 24:51
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And it came to be, while He was blessing them, that He was parted from them and was taken up into the heaven.
Mark 6:41
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And taking the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to the heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to His taught ones to set before them. And the two fishes He divided among them all.
Mark 7:34
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And looking up to the heaven, He sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened."
John 11:41
41:
So they took away the stone where the dead man was laid. And יהושע lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
John 17:1
1:
יהושע said these words, and lifted up His eyes to the heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come. Esteem Your Son, so that Your Son also might esteem You,
Luke 3:21
21:
And it came to be, when all the people were immersed, יהושע also being immersed, and praying, the heaven was opened,
Luke 6:12
12:
And in those days it came to be that He went out to the mountain to pray, and was spending the night in prayer to Elohim.
Luke 9:29
29:
And it came to be, as He prayed, the appearance of His face changed, and His garment dazzling white.
Luke 22:41-45
41:
And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and falling on His knees He was praying,
42:
saying, "Father, if it be Your counsel, remove this cup from Me. Yet not My desire, but let Yours be done."
43:
And there appeared a messenger from heaven to Him, strengthening Him.
44:
And being in agony, He was praying more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
45:
And rising up from prayer, and coming to His taught ones, He found them sleeping from grief.
Here is an article about what is commonly known as "The Lords Prayer" taken from the International Bible Encyclopedia:
(
Mat_6:9-13; Luk_11:2-4): Prayer occupied an important place in the life and the teachings of Jesus. He was emphatically a man of prayer, praying frequently in private and in public, and occasionally spending whole nights in communion with His heavenly Father. He often spoke to His disciples on the subject of prayer, cautioning them against ostentation, or urging perseverance, faith and large expectation, and He gave them a model of devotion in the Lord's prayer.
1. Twofold Form:
This prayer is given by the evangelists in two different forms and in two entirely different con nections. In Matthew's account the prayer is given as a part of the Sermon on the Mount and in connection with a criticism of the ostentation usual in the prayers of the hypocrites and the heathen. Lk introduces the prayer after the Galilean ministry and represents it as given in response to a request from one of His disciples, "Lord teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." It gives us, however, no note of time or place, and it is quite possible that the incident which it records took place much earlier. The later form is much shorter than that of Mt and the common parts differ materially in language.
In view of the differences, the reader instinctively inquires whether the prayer was given on two different occasions in these different connections, or the evangelists have presented the same incident in forms derived from different sources, or modified the common source to suit their immediate purposes.
If the prayer was given only on one occasion, there is little doubt that Luke preserves the true historical circumstances, though not necessarily the accurate point of time or place, or the exact form of language. Such a request made at the close of the prayer of Jesus would be natural, and the incident bears every mark of reality. On the other hand, it would be reasonable to assume that the author of Matthew's source, remembering the incident, incorporated the prayer in the Sermon on the Mount as an illustration of the injunctions concerning prayer.
There are many reasons for regarding the Sermon as a collection of sayings spoken on different occasions and summarized for convenience in teaching and memorizing. There is, however, no proof that the prayer was given but once by Jesus. We need not suppose that His disciples were always the same, and we know that He gave instruction in prayer on various occasions. He may have given the model prayer on one occasion spontaneously and at another time on the request of a disciple. It is probable that the two evangelists, using the same or different sources, presented the prayer in such connection as best suited the plan of their narratives. In any case, it is rather remarkable that the prayer is not quoted or directly mentioned anywhere else in the New Testament.
2. Arrangement:
In addition to the opening salutation, "Our Father who art in heaven," the Lord's Prayer consists of six petitions. These are arranged in three equal parts. In the first part, the thought is directed toward God and His great purposes. In the second part, the attention is directed to our condition and wants. The two sets of petitions are closely related, and a line of progress runs through the whole prayer. The petitions of the first part are inseparable, as each includes the one which follows. As the hallowing of God's name requires the coming of His kingdom, so the kingdom comes through the doing of His will. Again, the first part calls for the second, for if His will is to be done by us, we must have sustenance, forgiveness and deliverance from evil. If we seek first the glory of God, the end requires our good. While we hallow His name we are sanctified in Him. The doxology of Mt and our rituals is not found in the leading manuscripts and is generally regarded as an ancient liturgical addition. For this reason it is omitted by the Revised Version (British and American).
3. Sources:
The sources of the two accounts cannot be known with certainty. It is hardly correct to say that one account is more original than the other. The original was spoken in Aramaic, while both of the reports are certainly based on Greek sources. The general agreement in language, especially in the use of the unique term
ἐπιούιος, epioúsios shows that they are not independent translations of the Aramaic original.
4. Special Expressions:
Three expressions of the prayer deserve special notice. The words, "Our Father," are new in the Bible and in the world. When God is called Father in the Old Testament, He is regarded as Father of the nation, not of the individual. Even in the moving prayer of
Isa_63:16 (the King James Version), "Doubtless thou art our father," the connection makes clear that the reference is to God in the capacity of Creator. The thought of God as the Father of the individual is first reached in the Apocrypha: "O Lord, Father and Master of my life" (Sirach 23:1; compare The Wisdom of Solomon 2:16; 14:3). Here also the notion is veiled in the thought of God as Creator. It was left for Jesus the Son to give us the privilege of calling God "Our Father."
Of the adjective
epiousion, "daily" or "needful," neither the origin nor the exact meaning is or is likely to be known. Whether it is qualitative or temporal depends on its derivation from ἐπεῖναι, epeinai, or ἐπιέναι, epiénai. Our translators usually follow the latter, translating "daily." the American Standard Revised Version gives "needful" as a marginal rendering.
The phrase
ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ, apó toú ponēroú, is equally ambiguous. Since the adjective may be either masculine or neut., it is impossible to decide whether "from the evil one" or "from the evil" was intended. The probability is in favor of the masculine. The Oriental naturally thought of evil in the concrete, just as we think of it in the abstract. For this reason the Authorized rendering "from evil" is more real to us. The evil deprecated is moral, not physical.
5. Purpose:
The Lord's Prayer was given as a lesson in prayer. As such this simple model surpasses all precepts about prayer. It suggests to the child of God the proper objects of prayer. It supplies suitable forms of language and illustrates the simple and direct manner in which we may trustingly address our heavenly Father. It embraces the elements of all spiritual desire summed up in a few choice sentences. For those who are not able to bring their struggling desires to birth in articulate language it provides an instructive form. To the mature disciple it ever unfolds with richer depths of meaning. Though we learn these words at our mother's knee, we need a lifetime to fill them with meaning and all eternity to realize their answer.
Literature.
The literature of this subject is very extensive. For brief treatment the student will consult the relative sections in the commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke and in the Lives of Christ and the articles on the Lord's Prayer in the several Bible diets. A collection of patristic comment is given by G. Tillmann in his Das Gebet nach der Lehre der Heiligen dargestellt, 2 volumes, Freiburg, 1876. The original comments may be found in any of the standard collections of the Church Fathers.
Among historical studies may be mentioned, F.H. Chase, The Lord's Prayer in the Early Church, Cambridge, 1891, and G. Dalman, Die Worte Jesu, I, Leipzig, 1898, English translation, Edinburgh, 1902.
Among the numerous interpretative treatments, the following are some of the more important: N. Hall, The Lord's Prayer, Edinburgh, 1889; H.J. Van Dyke, The Lord's Prayer, New York, 1891; J. Ruskin, Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church, late edition, New York, 1896; E. Wordsworth, Thoughts on the Lord's Prayer, New York, 1898; C.W. Stubbs, Social Teachings of the Lord's Prayer, London, 1900; A.B. Bruce, The Training of the Twelve, chapter vi, 4th edition, New York, 1905; L.T. Chamberlain, The True Doctrine of Prayer, New York, 1906; F.M. Williams, Spiritual Instructions on the Lord's Prayer, New York, 1907.
This is an article on the phrase "HOUSE OF PRAYER" from the same source:
The Mosaic law did not regulate the offering of prayer, but fully recognized its spontaneous character. In what manner or how far back in Jewish history the sacrificial prayer, mentioned in
Luk_1:10, originated no one knows. In the days of Christ it had evidently become an institution. But ages before that, stated hours of prayer were known and religiously observed by all devout Jews. It evidently belonged to the evolutionary process of Jewish worship, in connection with the temple-ritual. Devout Jews, living at Jerusalem, went to the temple to pray (Luk_18:10; Act_3:1). The pious Jews of the Diaspora opened their windows "toward Jerus" and prayed "toward" the place of God's presence (1Ki_8:48; Dan_6:10; Psa_5:7). The regular hours of prayer, as we may infer from Psa_55:17 and Dan_6:10, were three in number. The first coincided with the morning sacrifice, at the 3rd hour of the morning, at 9 AM therefore (Act_2:15). The second was at the 6th hour, or at noon, and may have coincided with the thanksgiving for the chief meal of the day, a religious custom apparently universally observed (Mat_15:36; Act_27:35). The 3rd hour of prayer coincided with the evening sacrifice, at the ninth hour (Act_3:1; Act_10:30). Thus every day, as belonging to God, was religiously subdivided, and regular seasons of prayer were assigned to the devout believer. Its influence on the development of the religious spirit must have been incalculable, and it undoubtedly is, at least in part, the solution of the riddle of the preservation of the Jewish faith in the cruel centuries of its bitter persecution. Mohammedanism borrowed this feature of worship from the Jews and early Christians, and made it one of the chief pillars of its faith.
According to the King James Concordance, the following words are translated into the english word "Prayer."
When should we pray:
Hours of Prayer
The Mosaic law did not regulate the offering of prayer, but fully recognized its spontaneous character. In what manner or how far back in Jewish history the sacrificial prayer, mentioned in
Luk_1:10, originated no one knows. In the days of Christ it had evidently become an institution. But ages before that, stated hours of prayer were known and religiously observed by all devout Jews. It evidently belonged to the evolutionary process of Jewish worship, in connection with the temple-ritual. Devout Jews, living at Jerusalem, went to the temple to pray (Luk_18:10; Act_3:1). The pious Jews of the Diaspora opened their windows "toward Jerus" and prayed "toward" the place of God's presence (1Ki_8:48; Dan_6:10; Psa_5:7). The regular hours of prayer, as we may infer from Psa_55:17 and Dan_6:10, were three in number. The first coincided with the morning sacrifice, at the 3rd hour of the morning, at 9 AM therefore (Act_2:15). The second was at the 6th hour, or at noon, and may have coincided with the thanksgiving for the chief meal of the day, a religious custom apparently universally observed (Mat_15:36; Act_27:35). The 3rd hour of prayer coincided with the evening sacrifice, at the ninth hour (Act_3:1; Act_10:30). Thus every day, as belonging to God, was religiously subdivided, and regular seasons of prayer were assigned to the devout believer. Its influence on the development of the religious spirit must have been incalculable, and it undoubtedly is, at least in part, the solution of the riddle of the preservation of the Jewish faith in the cruel centuries of its bitter persecution. Mohammedanism borrowed this feature of worship from the Jews and early Christians, and made it one of the chief pillars of its faith.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
4:
"Hear, O Yisra’ĕl: יהוה our Elohim, יהוה is one!
5:
"And you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.
6:
"And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart,
7:
and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up,
8:
and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
9:
"And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
The following are the original words that have been translated into the words "pray" or "prayer" in the scripture:
H2470
חלה
châlâh
khaw-law'
A primitive root (compare
H2342, H2490); properly to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat: - beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, X pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (X supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
Daniel 9:13
13:
"As it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, all this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated the face of יהוה our Elohim, to turn back from our crookednesses, and to study Your truth.
H3908
לחשׁ
lachash
lakh'-ash
From
H3907; properly a whisper, that is, by implication (in a good sense) a private prayer, (in a bad one) an incantation; concretely an amulet: - charmed, earring, enchantment, orator, prayer.
Isaiah 26:16
16:
O יהוה, in distress they shall visit You, they shall pour out a prayer when Your disciplining is upon them.
H6279
עתר
‛âthar
aw-thar'
A primitive root (rather denominative from
H6281); to burn incense in worship, that is, intercede (reciprocally listen to prayer): - intreat, (make) pray (-er).
Job 22:26-27
26:
Then you shall certainly delight in the Almighty, and lift up your face to Eloah,
27:
make your prayer to Him. And He shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
Job 33:26
26:
He prays to Eloah, and He accepts him. And he sees His face with joy, and He restores to man his righteousness.
H6419
פּלל
pâlal
paw-lal'
A primitive root; to judge (officially or mentally); by extension to intercede, pray: - intreat, judge (-ment), (make) pray (-er, -ing), make supplication.
pray, 34
Num_21:7
(2), 1Sa_7:5, 1Sa_12:19, 1Sa_12:23, 2Sa_7:27, 1Ki_8:30, 1Ki_8:33, 1Ki_8:35, 1Ki_8:42, 1Ki_8:44, 1Ki_8:48, 1Ki_13:6, 1Ch_17:25, 2Ch_6:24, 2Ch_6:26, 2Ch_6:32, 2Ch_6:38, 2Ch_7:14, Neh_1:6, Job_42:8, Psa_5:2, Psa_32:6, Isa_16:12, Isa_45:20, Jer_7:16, Jer_11:14, Jer_14:11, Jer_29:7, Jer_29:12, Jer_37:3, Jer_42:2, Jer_42:4, Jer_42:20
prayed, 30
Gen_20:17
, Num_11:2, Num_21:7, Deu_9:20, Deu_9:26, 1Sa_1:10, 1Sa_1:27, 1Sa_2:1, 1Sa_8:6, 2Ki_4:33, 2Ki_6:17-18 (2), 2Ki_19:15, 2Ki_19:20, 2Ki_20:2, 2Ch_30:18, 2Ch_32:20, 2Ch_32:24, 2Ch_33:13, Ezr_10:1, Neh_2:4 (2), Job_42:10, Isa_37:15, Isa_37:21, Isa_38:2, Jer_32:16, Dan_9:4, Jon_4:1-2 (2)
praying, 5
1Sa_1:12
, 1Sa_1:26, 1Ki_8:54, 2Ch_7:1, Dan_9:20
prayeth, 4
1Ki_8:28
, 2Ch_6:19-20 (2), Isa_44:17
prayer
, 2
Neh_4:9
, Psa_72:15
H7878
שׂיח
ś
ı̂yach
see'-akh
A primitive root; to ponder, that is, (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence aloud) or (transitively) utter: - commune, complain, declare, meditate, muse, pray, speak, talk (with)
Psalms 55:17
17:
Evening and morning and at noon I complain and moan, And He hears my voice.
Job 15:4
4:
Indeed, you do away with reverence, and withhold prayer before Ěl.
H7879
שׂיח
ś
ı̂yach
see'-akh
From
H7878; a contemplation; by implication an utterance: - babbling, communication, complaint, meditation, prayer, talk.
Psalms 64:1
1:
Hear my voice, O Elohim, in my meditation; Guard my life from the threats of the enemy.
H8605
תּפלּה
tephillâh
tef-il-law'
From
H6419; intercession, supplication; by implication a hymn: - prayer.
prayer
, 75
2Sa_7:27
, 1Ki_8:28-29 (3), 1Ki_8:38, 1Ki_8:45, 1Ki_8:49, 1Ki_8:54, 1Ki_9:3, 2Ki_20:4-5 (2), 2Ch_6:19-20 (3), 2Ch_6:29, 2Ch_6:35, 2Ch_6:39-40 (2), 2Ch_7:12, 2Ch_7:15, 2Ch_30:27, 2Ch_33:18-19 (2), Neh_1:6, Neh_1:11 (2), Job_16:17 (2), Psa_4:1, Psa_6:9, Psa_17:1 (2), Psa_35:13, Psa_39:12, Psa_42:8, Psa_54:2, Psa_65:1-2 (3), Psa_66:19-20 (2), Psa_69:13, Psa_80:4, Psa_84:8, Psa_86:1, Psa_86:6, Psa_88:2, Psa_88:13, Psa_102:1 (3), Psa_102:17 (2), Psa_109:4, Psa_109:7, Psa_141:2, Psa_141:5, Psa_143:1 (2), Pro_15:8, Pro_15:29, Pro_28:9, Isa_38:4-5 (2), Isa_56:7 (2), Jer_7:16, Jer_11:14, Lam_3:8, Lam_3:44, Dan_9:3, Dan_9:17, Dan_9:21, Jon_2:7, Hab_3:1
prayers, 2
Psa_72:20
, Isa_1:15
G1162
δέησις
deēsis
deh'-ay-sis
From
G1189; a petition: - prayer, request, supplication.
prayer
, 7
Luk_1:13
, Rom_10:1, 2Co_1:11, 2Co_9:14, Phi_1:4, Phi_1:19, Jam_5:16
prayers, 5
Luk_2:37
, Luk_5:33, 2Ti_1:3, Heb_5:7, 1Pe_3:121
G1783
ἔντευξις
enteuxis
ent'-yook-sis
From
G1793; an interview, that is, (specifically) supplication: - intercession, prayer.
Timothy 4:5
5:
for it is set apart by the Word of Elohim and prayer.
G2171
εὐχή
euchē
G2171
εὐχή
euchē
yoo-khay'
From
G2172; properly a wish, expressed as a petition to God, or in votive obligation: - prayer, vow
James 5:15
15:
And the prayer of the belief shall save the sick, and the Master shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven.
G4335
προσευχή
proseuchē
pros-yoo-khay'
From
G4336; prayer (worship); by implication an oratory (chapel): - X pray earnestly, prayer.
Mat_17:21
, Mat_21:13, Mat_21:22, Mar_9:29, Mar_11:17, Luk_6:12, Luk_19:46, Luk_22:45, Act_1:14, Act_3:1, Act_6:4, Act_10:31, Act_12:5, Act_16:13, Act_16:16, Rom_12:12, 1Co_7:5, Eph_6:18, Phi_4:6, Col_4:2, 1Pe_4:7
prayers, 15
Act_2:42
, Act_10:4, Rom_1:9, Rom_15:30, Eph_1:16, Col_4:12, 1Th_1:2, 1Ti_2:1, 1Ti_5:5, Phm_1:4, Phm_1:22, 1Pe_3:7, Rev_5:8, Rev_8:3-4 (2)
G4336
προσεύχομαι
proseuchomai
pros-yoo'-khom-ahee
From
G4314 and G2172; to pray to God, that is, supplicate, worship: - pray (X earnestly, for), make prayer.
pray, 42
Mat_5:44
, Mat_6:5-7 (3), Mat_6:9, Mat_14:23, Mat_19:13, Mat_24:20, Mat_26:36, Mat_26:41, Mar_6:46, Mar_11:24, Mar_13:18, Mar_13:33, Mar_14:32, Mar_14:38, Luk_6:12, Luk_9:28 (2), Luk_11:1-2 (2), Luk_18:1, Luk_18:10, Luk_22:40, Luk_22:46, Act_10:9, Rom_8:26, 1Co_14:13-15 (5), Col_1:9 (2), 1Th_5:17, 1Th_5:25, 2Th_1:11, 2Th_3:1, 1Ti_2:8, Heb_13:18, Jam_5:13-14 (2)
prayed, 25
Mat_26:39
, Mat_26:42, Mat_26:44, Mar_14:35 (2), Mar_14:39, Luk_5:16, Luk_9:29, Luk_18:11, Luk_22:41, Luk_22:44, Act_1:24, Act_6:6, Act_8:15, Act_9:40, Act_10:30, Act_13:3, Act_14:23, Act_16:25, Act_20:36, Act_21:5, Act_22:17, Act_28:8, Jam_5:17-18 (2)
praying, 12
Mar_11:25
, Luk_1:10, Luk_3:21, Luk_9:18, Luk_11:1, Act_11:5, Act_12:12, 1Co_11:4, Eph_6:18, Col_4:3 (2), Jud_1:20
make, 3
Mat_23:14
, Mar_12:40, Luk_20:47
prayeth, 3
Act_9:11
, 1Co_11:5, 1Co_14:14
prayers, 2
Mar_12:40
, Luk_20:47
prayest, 2
Mat_6:5-6
(2)
prayer
, 1
Mat_23:14
H577
אנּה אנּא
'ân'â 'ânnâh
awn'-naw,
awn'-naw
Apparently contracted from
H160 and H4994: oh now!: - I (me) beseech (pray) thee, O.
H1156
בּעה בּעא
be‛â' be‛âh
beh-aw',
beh-aw'
(Chaldee); corresponding to
H1158; to seek or ask: - ask, desire, make [petition], pray, request, seek.
H2470
חלה
châlâh
khaw-law'
A primitive root (compare
H2342, H2490); properly to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat: - beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, X pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (X supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
H2603
חנן
chânan
khaw-nan'
A primitive root (compare
H2583); properly to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (that is, move to favor by petition): - beseech, X fair, (be, find, shew) favour (-able), be (deal, give, grant (gracious (-ly), intreat, (be) merciful, have (shew) mercy (on, upon), have pity upon, pray, make supplication, X very.
H3863
לוּ לא לוּא
lû' lû' lû
loo,
loo, loo
A conditional particle; if; by implication (interjectionally as a wish) would that!: - if (haply), peradventure, I
pray thee, though, I would, would God (that).
H4994
נא
nâ'
naw
A primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered I
pray, now or then; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjugation: - I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.
H6279
עתר
‛âthar
aw-thar'
A primitive root (rather denominative from
H6281); to burn incense in worship, that is, intercede (reciprocally listen to prayer): - intreat, (make) pray (-er).
H6293
פּגע
pâga‛
paw-gah'
A primitive root; to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity: - come (betwixt), cause to entreat, fall (upon), make intercession, intercessor, intreat, lay, light [upon], meet (together),
pray, reach, run.
H6419
פּלל
pâlal
paw-lal'
A primitive root; to judge (officially or mentally); by extension to intercede,
pray: - intreat, judge (-ment), (make) pray (-er, -ing), make supplication.
H6739
צלא
tselâ'
tsel-aw'
(Chaldee); probably corresponding to
H6760 in the sense of bowing; pray: - pray.
H7592
שׁאל שׁאל
shâ'al shâ'êl
shaw-al',
shaw-ale'
A primitive root; to inquire; by implication to request; by extension to demand: - ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, X earnestly, enquire, + greet, obtain leave, lend,
pray, request, require, + salute, X straitly, X surely, wish.
H7878
שׂיח
ś
ı̂yach
see'-akh
A primitive root; to ponder, that is, (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence aloud) or (transitively) utter: - commune, complain, declare, meditate, muse,
pray, speak, talk (with).
G1189
δέομαι
deomai
deh'-om-ahee
Middle voice of
G1210; to beg (as binding oneself), that is, petition: - beseech, pray (to), make request. Compare G4441.
G1714
ἐμπρήθω
emprēthō
em-
pray'-tho
From
G1722 and πρήθω prēthō (to blow a flame); to enkindle, that is, set on fire: - burn up.
G2065
ἐρωτάω
erōtaō
er-o-tah'-o
Apparently from
G2046 (compare G2045); to interrogate; by implication to request: - ask, beseech, desire, intreat, pray. Compare G4441.
G2172
εὔχομαι
euchomai
yoo'-khom-ahee
Middle voice of a primary verb; to wish; by implication to
pray to God: - pray, will, wish.
G3870
παρακαλέω
parakaleō
par-ak-al-eh'-o
From
G3844 and G2564; to call near, that is, invite, invoke (by imploration, hortation or consolation): - beseech, call for, (be of good) comfort, desire, (give) exhort (-ation), intreat, pray.
G4092
πίμπρημι
pimprēmi
pim'-
pray-mee
A reduplicated and prolonged form of a primary word,
πρέω preō, (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); to fire, that is, burn (figuratively and passively become inflamed with fever): - be (X should have) swollen.
G4248
πρηνής
prēnēs
pray
-nace'
From
G4253; leaning (falling) forward ("prone"), that is, head foremost: - headlong.
G4335
προσευχή
proseuchē
pros-yoo-khay'
From
G4336; prayer (worship); by implication an oratory (chapel): - X pray earnestly, prayer.
G4336
προσεύχομαι
proseuchomai
pros-yoo'-khom-ahee
From
G4314 and G2172; to pray to God, that is, supplicate, worship: - pray (X earnestly, for), make prayer.
G4727
στενάζω
stenazō
sten-ad'-zo
From
G4728; to make (intransitively be) in straits, that is, (by implication) to sigh, murmur, pray inaudibly: - with grief, groan, grudge, sigh.
Genesis 20:7:
"And now, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and let him pray for you and you live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall certainly die, you and all that are yours."
Genesis 32:11:
"Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Ěsaw, for I fear him, lest he come and shall smite me and the mother with the children.
Exodus 8:8:
Pharaoh then called for Mosheh and Aharon, and said, "Pray to
יהוה to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I shall let the people go to slaughter to יהוה."
Exodus 8:9:
And Mosheh said to Pharaoh, "Explain yourself to me: When am I to pray for you, and for your servants, and for your people, to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, and remain only in the river?"
Exodus 8:28:
And Pharaoh said, "I am letting you go, then you shall slaughter to
יהוה your Elohim in the wilderness. Only, do not go very far away! Pray for me."
Exodus 8:29:
And Mosheh said, "See, when I leave you I shall pray to
יהוה, and tomorrow the swarms of flies shall depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. But do not let Pharaoh again deceive, not to let the people go to slaughter to יהוה."
Exodus 9:28:
"Pray to
יהוה, for there has been enough of the thunder and hail of Elohim. And I am letting you go, so that you stay no longer."
Exodus 10:17:
"And now, please forgive my sin only this once, and pray to
יהוה your Elohim, that He would only turn away this death from me."
Exodus 34:9:
and said, "If, now, I have found favour in Your eyes, O
יהוה, I pray, let יהוה go on in our midst, even though we are a stiff-necked people. And forgive our crookedness and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance."
Numbers 14:17:
"And now, I pray, let the power of
יהוה be great, as You have spoken, saying,
Numbers 21:7:
Then the people came to Mosheh, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against
יהוה and against you. Pray to יהוה to take away the serpents from us." So Mosheh prayed on behalf of the people.
Deuteronomy 3:25:
‘I pray, let me pass over and see the good land beyond the Yardĕn, this good hill country, and Leb
̱anon.’
Judges 16:28:
And Shimshon called to
יהוה, saying, "O Master יהוה, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, only this time, O Elohim, and let me avenge myself on the Philistines with vengeance for my two eyes!"
1 Samuel 2:25:
"If one man sins against another, Elohim shall judge him. But if a man sins against
יהוה, who shall pray for him?" But they did not listen to the voice of their father, though יהוה was pleased to put them to death.
1 Samuel 7:5:
And Shemu’ĕl said, "Gather all Yisra’ĕl to Mitspah and let me pray to
יהוה for you."
1 Samuel 12:19:
And all the people said to Shemu’ĕl, "Pray for your servants to
יהוה your Elohim, that we do not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil of asking for ourselves a sovereign."
1 Samuel 12:23:
"Also, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against
יהוה in ceasing to pray for you, but I shall teach you the good and straight way.
1 Samuel 23:11:
"Are the landowners of Qe
ʽilah going to surrender me into his hand? Is Sha’ul coming down, as Your servant has heard? O יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, I pray, let Your servant know." And יהוה said, "He is coming down."
2 Samuel 7:27:
"For You, O
יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, have revealed this to Your servant, saying, ‘I build you a house.’ Therefore Your servant has taken heart to pray this prayer to You.
2 Samuel 15:31:
And Dawid
̱ was informed, saying, "Aḥithophel is among the conspirators with Aḇshalom." And Dawiḏ said, "O יהוה, I pray You, make the counsel of Aḥithophel foolish!"
2 Samuel 24:10:
And the heart of Dawid
̱ smote him after he had numbered the people. And Dawiḏ said to יהוה, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, I pray, O יהוה, take away the crookedness of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."
2 Samuel 24:17:
And Dawid
̱ spoke to יהוה when he saw the messenger who was smiting the people, and said, "See, I have sinned, and I have done perversely. But these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house."
1 Kings 8:30:
"Then, shall You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Yisra’ĕl when they pray toward this place, when You hear in Your dwelling place, in the heavens? And shall You hear, and forgive?
1 Kings 8:33:
"When Your people Yisra’ĕl are smitten before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, and they shall turn back to You and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication to You in this House,
1 Kings 8:35:
"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they sin against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,
1 Kings 8:42:
since they hear of Your great Name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm – and he shall come and pray toward this House,
1 Kings 8:44:
"When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, in the way that You send them, and they shall pray to
יהוה toward the city which You have chosen and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,
1 Kings 8:48:
and they shall turn back to You with all their heart and with all their being in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and shall pray to You toward their land which You gave to their fathers, the city which You have chosen and the House which I have built for Your Name,
1 Kings 13:6:
And the sovereign answered and said to the man of Elohim, "Please appease the face of
יהוה your Elohim, and pray for me, that my hand might be restored to me." And the man of Elohim appeased the face of יהוה, and the sovereign’s hand was restored to him, and became as it was before.
1 Kings 17:21:
And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to
יהוה and said, "O יהוה my Elohim, I pray, let the life of this child come back to him."
2 Kings 6:17:
And Elisha prayed, and said, "
יהוה, I pray, open his eyes and let him see." And יהוה opened the eyes of the young man, and he looked and saw the mountain covered with horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Kings 6:18:
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to
יהוה, and said, "Strike this nation with blindness, I pray." And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
2 Kings 19:19:
"And now, O
יהוה our Elohim, I pray, save us from his hand, so that all the reigns of the earth know that You are יהוה Elohim, You alone."
2 Kings 20:3:
"I pray to You, O
יהוה, remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what was good in Your eyes." And Ḥizqiyahu wept bitterly.
1 Chronicles 17:25:
"For You, O my Elohim, have revealed to Your servant to build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found courage to pray before You.
1 Chronicles 21:8:
Then Dawid
̱ said to Elohim, "I have sinned greatly, because I have done this matter. But now, I pray, take away the crookedness of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly."
1 Chronicles 21:17:
And Dawid
̱ said to Elohim, "Was it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed. But these, the sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, O יהוה my Elohim, be against me and my father’s house, but not against Your people, to be plagued."
2 Chronicles 6:21:
"And shall You give heed to the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Yisra’ĕl, when they pray toward this place, and hear from Your dwelling place, in the heavens, and shall hear and forgive?
2 Chronicles 6:24:
"And if Your people Yisra’ĕl are smitten before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they shall turn back and confess Your Name, and pray and make supplication before You in this House,
2 Chronicles 6:26:
"When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they shall pray toward this place and confess Your Name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,
2 Chronicles 6:32:
"Also, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Yisra’ĕl, but who comes from a far land for the sake of Your great Name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray in this House,
2 Chronicles 6:34:
"When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, in the way that You send them, and they shall pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,
2 Chronicles 6:38:
and when they return to You with all their heart and with all their being in the land of their captivity, where they have taken them captive, and they shall pray toward their land which You gave to their fathers, and the city which You have chosen, and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,
2 Chronicles 6:40:
"Now, my Elohim, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer of this place.
2 Chronicles 7:14:
and My people upon whom My Name is called, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I shall hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin and heal their land.
Ezra 6:10:
so that they bring pleasing offerings to the Elah of heaven, and pray for the life of the sovereign and his sons.
Nehemiah 1:5:
and I said, "I pray,
יהוה Elohim of the heavens, O great and awesome Ěl, guarding the covenant and kindness with those who love You, and with those guarding Your commands,
Nehemiah 1:11:
"O
יהוה, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who delight to fear Your Name. And let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man." For I was cupbearer to the sovereign.
Job 9:15:
For though I were righteous, I would not answer Him. I pray to Him for my right-ruling.
Job 21:15:
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
Job 42:8:
And now, take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Iyob
̱, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And let My servant Iyoḇ pray for you – for I accept him – lest I punish you; because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as did My servant Iyoḇ."
Psalms 5:2:
Attend to the voice of my cry, My Sovereign and my Elohim, For unto You I pray.
Psalms 32:6:
Therefore, let every kind one pray to You While You might be found; Even in a flood of great waters They would not reach him.
Psalms 116:4:
Then I called upon the Name of
יהוה, "O יהוה, I pray to You, deliver my being!"
Psalms 118:25:
I pray, O
יהוה, please save; I pray, O יהוה, please send prosperity.
Psalms 122:6:
Pray for the peace of Yerushalayim, Let those who love You be at rest.
Psalms 142:1:
I cry out to
יהוה with my voice; I pray to יהוה with my voice.
Isaiah 16:12:
And it shall be, when it is seen that Mo’ab
̱ has wearied herself on the high place, that she shall come to her set-apart place to pray, but not be able.
Isaiah 38:3:
and said, "I pray, O
יהוה, please remember how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your eyes." And Ḥizqiyahu wept bitterly.
Isaiah 45:20:
"Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the gentiles. No knowledge have they who are lifting up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a mighty one that does not save.
Jeremiah 7:16:
"And you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me, for I do not hear you.
Jeremiah 11:14:
"And you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I do not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their evil.
Jeremiah 14:11:
And
יהוה said to me, "Do not pray for this people for their good.
Jeremiah 29:7:
‘And seek the peace of the city where I have exiled you, and pray to
יהוה for it, for in its peace you have peace.’
Jeremiah 29:12:
‘Then you shall call on Me, and shall come and pray to Me, and I shall listen to you.
Jeremiah 37:3:
And Tsid
̱qiyahu the sovereign sent Yehuḵal son of Shelemyah, and the priest, Tsephanyahu son of Maʽasĕyah, to the prophet Yirmeyahu, saying, "Please pray to יהוה our Elohim for us."
Jeremiah 42:2:
and said to Yirmeyahu the prophet, "We beg you, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to
יהוה your Elohim, for all this remnant, for we are few left of many, as your eyes see us.
Jeremiah 42:20:
"For you deceived yourselves when you sent me to
יהוה your Elohim, saying, ‘Pray for us to יהוה our Elohim, and according to all that יהוה your Elohim says, so declare to us and we shall do it.’
Daniel 9:16:
"O
יהוה, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your displeasure and Your wrath be turned away from Your city Yerushalayim, Your set-apart mountain. For, because of our sins, and because of the crookednesses of our fathers, Yerushalayim and Your people have become a reproach to all those around us.
Amos 7:2:
And it came to be, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said, "O Master
יהוה, forgive, I pray! How does Yaʽaqoḇ survive, for he is small?"
Jonah 1:14:
And they cried out to
יהוה and said, "We pray, O יהוה, please, let us not perish for this man’s life, and do not lay on us innocent blood. For You, O יהוה, have done as it pleased You."
Zechariah 7:2:
Now Bĕyth Ěl had sent Shar’etser, with Reg
̄em-Meleḵ and his men, to pray before יהוה,
Zechariah 8:21:
and the inhabitants of the one go to another, saying, "Let us earnestly go and pray before
יהוה, and seek יהוה of hosts. I myself am going."
Zechariah 8:22:
‘And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek
יהוה of hosts in Yerushalayim, and to pray before יהוה.’
Matthew 5:44:
"But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those insulting you and persecuting you,
Matthew 6:5:
"And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the congregations and on the corners of the streets, to be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
Matthew 6:6:
"But you, when you pray, go into your room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.
Matthew 6:9:
"This, then, is the way you should pray: ‘Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart,
Matthew 9:38:
"Pray then that the Master of the harvest would send out workers to His harvest."
Matthew 14:23:
And having dismissed the crowds, He went up to the mountain by Himself to pray. And when evening had come, He was alone there.
Matthew 19:13:
Then young children were brought to Him to lay His hands on them and pray, and the taught ones rebuked them.
Matthew 24:20:
"And pray that your flight does not take place in winter or on the Sabbath.
Matthew 26:36:
Then
יהושע came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the taught ones, "Sit here while I go over there and pray."
Matthew 26:41:
"Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."
Matthew 26:53:
"Or do you think that I am not able to pray to My Father now, and He shall provide Me with more than twelve legions of messengers?
Mark 6:46:
And having sent them away, He went away to the mountain to pray.
Mark 11:24:
"Because of this I say to you, whatever you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.
Mark 13:18:
"And pray that your flight does not take place in winter.
Mark 13:33:
"Take heed, watch and pray, for you do not know when the time is –
Mark 14:32:
And they came to a place called Gethsemane. And He said to His taught ones, "Sit here while I pray."
Mark 14:38:
"Watch and pray, lest you enter into trial. The spirit indeed is eager, but the flesh is weak."
Luke 6:12:
And in those days it came to be that He went out to the mountain to pray, and was spending the night in prayer to Elohim.
Luke 6:28:
"Bless those cursing you, and pray for those insulting you.
Luke 9:28:
And it came to be, about eight days after these words, taking with Him Kĕpha and Yoh
̣anan and Yaʽaqoḇ, He went up to the mountain to pray.
Luke 10:2:
Then He said to them, "The harvest indeed is great, but the workers are few, therefore pray the Master of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.
Luke 11:1:
And it came to be while He was praying in a certain place, as He ceased, one of His taught ones said to Him, "Master, teach us to pray, as Yoh
̣anan also taught his taught ones."
Luke 11:2:
And He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Luke 18:1:
And He spoke a parable to them, that they should always pray and not lose heart,
Luke 18:10:
"Two men went up to the Set-apart Place to pray – the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Luke 18:11:
"The Pharisee stood and began to pray with himself this way, ‘Elohim, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men, swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
Luke 21:36:
"Watch then at all times, and pray that you be counted worthy to escape all this about to take place, and to stand before the Son of Ad
̱am."
Luke 22:40:
And coming to the place, He said to them, "Pray that you do not enter into trial."
Luke 22:46:
And He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into trial."
John 16:26:
"In that day you shall ask in My Name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father on your behalf,
John 17:9:
"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours.
John 17:15:
"I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the wicked one.
John 17:20:
"And I do not pray for these alone, but also for those believing in Me through their word,
Acts 10:9:
And on the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Kĕpha went up on the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour.
Acts 12:12:
And having realised this, he went to the house of Miryam, the mother of Yoh
̣anan who was also called Mark, where many had gathered to pray.
Acts 26:29:
And Sha’ul said, "Much or little, I pray to Elohim that not only you, but also all who hear me today, might become such as I also am, except for these chains."
Romans 8:26:
And in the same way the Spirit does help in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray, but the Spirit Himself pleads our case for us with groanings unutterable.
1 Corinthians 11:13:
Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to Elohim with her head uncovered?
1 Corinthians 14:13:
Therefore, he who is speaking in a tongue, let him pray that he might interpret.
1 Corinthians 14:15:
What then is it? I shall pray with the spirit, and I shall also pray with the understanding. I shall sing with the spirit, and I shall also sing with the understanding.
2 Corinthians 10:2:
But I pray, that when I am present, I might not be bold with that bravery by which I think to be bold against some who reckon us as if we walked according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 13:7:
And we pray to Elohim that you do no evil at all – not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is right, even though we should appear unapproved.
2 Corinthians 13:9:
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong.
And this also we pray for: your perfection.1 Footnote: 1Mt. 5:48.
Ephesians 3:13:
I pray therefore, that you do not lose heart at my pressures on your behalf, which is your esteem.
Philippians 1:4:
In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy,
Philippians 1:9:
And this I pray, that your love might extend more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
1 Thessalonians 5:17:
pray without ceasing,
1 Thessalonians 5:25:
Brothers, pray for us.
2 Thessalonians 1:11:
To this end we always pray for you that our Elohim would count you worthy of this calling, and complete all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of belief with power,
2 Thessalonians 3:1:
For the rest, brothers, pray for us, so that the Word of
יהוה spreads rapidly and be praised, as also with you,
1 Timothy 2:8:
So I resolve that the men pray everywhere, lifting up hands that are set-apart, without wrath and disputing.
Hebrews 13:18:
Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, desiring to behave well in every way.
James 5:13:
Is any of you suffering evil? Let him pray. Is anyone in good spirits? Let him sing psalms.
James 5:14:
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil in the Name of the Master.
James 5:16:
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, so that you are healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous one accomplishes much.
1 John 5:16:
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin, not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give him life for those not sinning unto death. There is a sin unto death. I do not say that he should pray about that.
3 John 1:2:
Beloved ones, I pray for you to do well in every way, and be in health, as your life is doing well.
Genesis 25:21:
And Yitsh
̣aq prayed to יהוה for his wife, because she was barren. And יהוה answered his prayer, and Riḇqah his wife conceived.
2 Samuel 7:27:
"For You, O
יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, have revealed this to Your servant, saying, ‘I build you a house.’ Therefore Your servant has taken heart to pray this prayer to You.
2 Samuel 21:14:
and buried the bones of Sha’ul and Yehonathan his son in the land of Binyamin in Tsela, in the tomb of Qish his father, and did all that the sovereign commanded. And after that Elohim heard prayer for the land.
1 Kings 8:28:
"Yet, shall You turn to the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O
יהוה my Elohim, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today?
1 Kings 8:29:
"For Your eyes to be open toward this House night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name is there,’ to listen to the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.
1 Kings 8:38:
whatever prayer, whatever supplication made by anyone of all Your people Yisra’ĕl, each knowing the plague of his own heart, and shall spread out his hands toward this House,
1 Kings 8:45:
then shall You hear in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause?
1 Kings 8:49:
then shall You hear in the heavens Your dwelling place their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause,
1 Kings 8:54:
And it came to be, when Shelomoh had ended praying all this prayer and supplication to
יהוה, that he rose up from before the altar of יהוה, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to the heavens.
1 Kings 9:3:
And
יהוה said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me. I have set this house apart which you have built to put My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart shall always be there.
2 Kings 19:4:
‘It could be that
יהוה your Elohim does hear all the words of the Raḇshaqĕh, whom his master the sovereign of Ashshur has sent to reproach the living Elohim, and shall rebuke the words which יהוה your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ "
2 Kings 20:5:
"Return and say to H
̣izqiyahu the leader of My people, ‘Thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Dawiḏ your father, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. See, I am going to heal you. On the third day go up to the House of יהוה.
1 Chronicles 5:20:
And they were helped against them, and the Hag
̄rites were given into their hand, and all who were with them. For they cried out to Elohim in the battle, and He answered their prayer, because they put their trust in Him.
2 Chronicles 6:19:
"Yet, shall You turn to the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O
יהוה my Elohim, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant is praying before You?
2 Chronicles 6:20:
"For Your eyes to be open toward this House day and night, toward the place You have said to put Your Name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant prays toward this place.
2 Chronicles 6:29:
whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Yisra’ĕl, when each one knows his own plague and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this house,
2 Chronicles 6:35:
then shall You hear from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause?
2 Chronicles 6:39:
then shall You hear from the heavens, Your dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive Your people who have sinned against You?
2 Chronicles 6:40:
"Now, my Elohim, I pray, let Your eyes be open and let Your ears be attentive to the prayer of this place.
2 Chronicles 7:12:
And
יהוה appeared to Shelomoh by night, and said to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of slaughtering.
2 Chronicles 7:15:
"Now, My eyes are open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place.
2 Chronicles 30:27:
And the priests, the Lĕwites, rose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard. And their prayer came up to His set-apart dwelling place, to heaven.
2 Chronicles 33:18:
And the rest of the acts of Menashsheh, his prayer to his Elohim, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the Name of
יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, see, they are written in the book of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕl.
2 Chronicles 33:19:
And his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places where he built high places and set up the Ashĕrim and the carved images, before he was humbled, see, they are written among the words of the seers.
Ezra 8:23:
So we fasted and prayed to our Elohim for this, and He answered our prayer.
Nehemiah 1:6:
please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, to hear the prayer of Your servant which I am praying before You now, day and night, for the children of Yisra’ĕl Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Yisra’ĕl which we have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned.
Nehemiah 1:11:
"O
יהוה, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who delight to fear Your Name. And let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man." For I was cupbearer to the sovereign.
Nehemiah 11:17:
and Mattanyah son of Mik
̱a, son of Zaḇdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader who began the thanksgiving with prayer, and Baqbuqyah the second among his brothers, and Aḇda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Yeḏuthun.
Job 15:4:
Indeed, you do away with reverence, and withhold prayer before Ěl.
Job 16:17:
though no violence was on my hand, and my prayer sincere.
Job 22:27:
make your prayer to Him. And He shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
Psalms 4:1:
Answer me when I call, O Elohim of my righteousness! You gave relief to me when I was in distress; Show favour to me, and hear my prayer.
Psalms 6:9:
יהוה
has heard my pleading; יהוה receives my prayer.
Psalms 17:1:
Hear righteousness,
יהוה, Listen to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, From lips without deceit.
Psalms 35:13:
But I, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth; I humbled my being with fastings; And my prayer would return to my own bosom.
Psalms 39:12:
"Hear my prayer, O
יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 42:8:
By day
יהוה commands His kindness, And by night His song is with me; A prayer to the Ěl of my life.
Psalms 54:2:
Hear my prayer, O Elohim; Give ear to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 55:1:
Give ear to my prayer, O Elohim, And do not hide Yourself from my plea.
Psalms 61:1:
Hear my cry, O Elohim, Listen to my prayer.
Psalms 65:2:
To You who hears all prayer, all flesh comes.
Psalms 66:19:
Truly, Elohim has heard me; He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
Psalms 66:20:
Blessed be Elohim, Who has not turned away my prayer, Nor His kindness from me!
Psalms 69:13:
But as for me, my prayer is to You, O
יהוה, At an acceptable time, O Elohim. In the greatness of Your kindness, Answer me in the truth of Your deliverance.
Psalms 72:15:
And He shall live, And the gold of Sheb
̱a be given to Him, And prayer be made for Him continually; Let Him be blessed all day long.
Psalms 80:4:
O
יהוה Elohim of hosts, How long shall You be wroth Against the prayer of Your people?
Psalms 84:8:
O
יהוה Elohim of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ! Selah.
Psalms 86:6:
Give ear, O
יהוה, to my prayer; And listen to the voice of my pleadings.
Psalms 88:2:
Let my prayer come before You, Incline Your ear to my cry.
Psalms 88:13:
But I, unto You I have cried, O
יהוה, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
Psalms 102:1:
O
יהוה, hear my prayer, And let my cry come to You.
Psalms 102:17:
He shall turn unto the prayer of the destitute, And He shall not despise their prayer.
Psalms 109:4:
In return for my love they accuse me, While I am in prayer.
Psalms 109:7:
When he is judged, let him be found wrong, And let his prayer become sin.
Psalms 119:170:
Let my prayer come before You; Deliver me according to Your word.
Psalms 141:2:
Let my prayer be prepared before You as incense, The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.
Psalms 141:5:
Let the righteous one smite me Or reprove me in kindness – It is oil on my head. Let my head not refuse it. My prayer is still against their evil deeds.
Psalms 143:1:
Hear my prayer, O
יהוה, Give ear to my pleadings In Your trustworthiness. Answer me in Your righteousness.
Proverbs 15:8:
The slaughtering of the wrong ones Is an abomination to
יהוה, But the prayer of the straight is His delight.
Proverbs 15:29:
יהוה
is far from the wrong ones, But He hears the prayer of the righteous1. Footnote: 1See 28:9.
Proverbs 28:9:
He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is
an abomination1. Footnote: 1See also 15:29, Isa. 59:1-2, John 9:31, 1 John 3:22.
Isaiah 26:16:
O
יהוה, in distress they shall visit You, they shall pour out a prayer when Your disciplining is upon them.
Isaiah 37:4:
‘It could be that
יהוה your Elohim does hear the words of the Raḇshaqĕh, whom his master the sovereign of Ashshur has sent to reproach the living Elohim, and shall rebuke the words which יהוה your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ "
Isaiah 38:5:
"Go and say to H
̣izqiyahu, ‘Thus said יהוה, the Elohim of Dawiḏ your father, "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. See, I am adding fifteen years to your days.
Isaiah 56:7:
them I shall bring to My set-apart mountain, and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their slaughterings are accepted on My altar, for My house is called a house of prayer for all the peoples."
Jeremiah 7:16:
"And you, do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me, for I do not hear you.
Jeremiah 11:14:
"And you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I do not hear them in the time that they cry out to Me because of their evil.
Lamentations 3:8:
Also, when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
Lamentations 3:44:
You have wrapped Yourself With a cloud, so that prayer does not pass through.
Daniel 9:3:
So I set my face toward
יהוה the Elohim to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
Daniel 9:17:
"And now, our Elohim, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the sake of
יהוה cause Your face to shine on Your set-apart place, which is laid waste.
Daniel 9:21:
while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gab
̱ri’ĕl, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, came close to me, in swift flight about the time of the evening offering.
Jonah 2:7:
"When my life fainted within me, I remembered
יהוה. And my prayer went up to You, into Your set-apart Hĕḵal.
Habakkuk 3:1:
A prayer of H
̣aḇaqquq the prophet, on Shiḡionoth.
Matthew 17:21:
"But this kind does not go out except through prayer and fasting."
Matthew 21:13:
And He said to them, "It has been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ "
Matthew 21:22:
"And whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive."
Mark 9:29:
And He said to them, "It is impossible for this kind to come out except through prayer and fasting."
Mark 11:17:
And He was teaching, saying to them, "Has it not been written, ‘My House shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ "
Luke 1:13:
But the messenger said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zek
̱aryah, for your prayer is heard. And your wife Elisheḇa shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Yoḥanan.
Luke 6:12:
And in those days it came to be that He went out to the mountain to pray, and was spending the night in prayer to Elohim.
Luke 19:46:
saying to them, "It has been written, ‘My House is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers.’ "
Luke 22:45:
And rising up from prayer, and coming to His taught ones, He found them sleeping from grief.
Acts 1:14:
All these were continuing with one mind in prayer and supplication, with the women and Miryam the mother of
יהושע, and with His brothers.
Acts 3:1:
And Kĕpha and Yoh
̣anan were going up to the Set-apart Place at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Acts 6:4:
but we shall give ourselves continually to prayer and to serving the Word."
Acts 10:31:
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your kind deeds were remembered before Elohim.
Acts 12:5:
So Kĕpha was indeed kept in prison, but prayer was earnestly made to Elohim on his behalf by the assembly.
Acts 16:13:
And on the Sabbath day we went outside the city by a river, where there used to be prayer. And having sat down we were speaking to the women who met there.
Acts 16:16:
And it came to be, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of Puthon, did meet us, who brought her masters much profit by foretelling.
Romans 10:1:
Truly brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to Elohim for Yisra’ĕl is for deliverance.
Romans 12:12:
rejoicing in the expectancy, enduring under pressure, continuing steadfastly in prayer;
1 Corinthians 7:5:
Do not deprive one another except with agreement for a time, to give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not try you because of your lack of self-control.
2 Corinthians 1:11:
you also helping together in prayer for us, that thanks shall be given by many on our behalf for the favour bestowed upon us through many.
2 Corinthians 9:14:
and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding favour of Elohim in you.
Ephesians 6:18:
praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;
Philippians 1:19:
For I know that this shall turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of
יהושע Messiah,
Philippians 4:6:
Do not worry at all, but in every matter, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to Elohim.
Colossians 4:2:
Continue in prayer, watching therein, with thanksgiving,
1 Timothy 4:5:
for it is set apart by the Word of Elohim and prayer.
James 5:15:
And the prayer of the belief shall save the sick, and the Master shall raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he shall be forgiven.
James 5:16:
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, so that you are healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous one accomplishes much.
Taking all into consideration, being sure to read each scripture in context in your own bible, ask yourself these questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? The answers to these questions will tell you what the bible has to say about prayer. In order to allow for the RUACH HA KODESH to teach HIS full truth to you the reader, I have chosen not to add any of my own comments or conclusions and allow you to come to those on your own. Any comments made in this article are from the International Biblical Encyclopedia and have been added to aid in your mental understanding alone. Shalom!