Lexicon :: Strong's G4335 - proseuchē

since you, LORD of Armies, God of Israel, have revealed this to your servant when you said, “I will build a house for you.” Therefore, your servant has found the courage to pray this prayer to you.

so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day,

toward the place where you said,

“My name will be there,”

and so that you may hear the prayer

that your servant prays toward this place.

every prayer or petition

that any person or that all your people Israel may have —

they each know their own affliction[fn] —

as they spread out their hands toward this temple,

may you hear their prayer and petition in heaven

and uphold their cause.

When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up from kneeling before the altar of the LORD, with his hands spread out toward heaven,

The LORD said to him:

I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put[fn] my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

“Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the royal spokesman, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.’ ”

“Go back and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people, ‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the LORD’s temple.

Listen[fn] to your servant’s prayer and his petition,

LORD my God,

so that you may hear the cry and the prayer

that your servant prays before you,

every prayer or petition

that any person or that all your people Israel may have —

they each know their own affliction[fn] and suffering —

as they spread out their hands toward this temple,

may you hear their prayer and petition in heaven

and uphold their cause.

may you hear their prayer and petitions in heaven,

your dwelling place,

and uphold their cause.[fn]

May you forgive your people

who sinned against you.

Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him:

I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple of sacrifice.

My eyes will now be open and my ears attentive to prayer from this place.

Then the priests and the Levites stood to bless the people, and God heard them, and their prayer came into his holy dwelling place in heaven.

The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are written in the Events of Israel’s Kings.

let your eyes be open and your ears be attentive to hear your servant’s prayer that I now pray to you day and night for your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins[fn] we have committed against you. Both I and my father’s family have sinned.

Please, Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to that of your servants who delight to revere your name. Give your servant success today, and grant him compassion in the presence of this man.[fn]

At the time, I was the king’s cupbearer.

Answer me when I call,

God, who vindicates me.[fn]

You freed me from affliction;

be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

The LORD has heard my plea for help;

the LORD accepts my prayer.

LORD, hear a just cause;

pay attention to my cry;

listen to my prayer —

from lips free of deceit.

Yet when they were sick,

my clothing was sackcloth;

I humbled myself with fasting,

and my prayer was genuine.[fn]

“Hear my prayer, LORD,

and listen to my cry for help;

do not be silent at my tears.

For I am here with you as an alien,

a temporary resident like all my ancestors.

The LORD will send his faithful love by day;

his song will be with me in the night —

a prayer to the God of my life.

God, hear my prayer;

listen to the words from my mouth.

God, listen to my prayer

and do not hide from my plea for help.

God, hear my cry;

pay attention to my prayer.

All humanity will come to you,

the one who hears prayer.

Blessed be God!

He has not turned away my prayer

or turned his faithful love from me.

But as for me, LORD,

my prayer to you is for a time of favor.

In your abundant, faithful love, God,

answer me with your sure salvation.

LORD God of Armies,

how long will you be angry

with your people’s prayers?

LORD God of Armies, hear my prayer;

listen, God of Jacob.Selah

Listen, LORD, and answer me,

for I am poor and needy.

LORD, hear my prayer;

listen to my cries for mercy.

May my prayer reach your presence;

listen to my cry.

But I call to you for help, LORD;

in the morning my prayer meets you.

Lord, you have been our refuge[fn]

in every generation.

LORD, hear my prayer;

let my cry for help come before you.

He will pay attention to the prayer of the destitute

and will not despise their prayer.

When he is judged, let him be found guilty,

and let his prayer be counted as sin.

May my prayer be set before you as incense,

the raising of my hands as the evening offering.

Let the righteous one strike me —

it is an act of faithful love;

let him rebuke me —

it is oil for my head;

let me[fn] not refuse it.

Even now my prayer is against

the evil acts of the wicked.[fn]

I cry aloud to the LORD;

I plead aloud to the LORD for mercy.

LORD, hear my prayer.

In your faithfulness listen to my plea,

and in your righteousness answer me.

Anyone who turns his ear away from hearing the law —

even his prayer is detestable.

“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add fifteen years to your life.[fn]

A poem by King Hezekiah of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:

“I will bring them to my holy mountain

and let them rejoice in my house of prayer.

Their burnt offerings and sacrifices

will be acceptable on my altar,

for my house will be called a house of prayer

for all nations.”