SinaiBible verses about Prayer
When Prayer Feels Unanswered
Silence, delay, and the reasons Scripture actually gives.
10 verses · World English Bible, with the American Standard Version beneath
How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
ASV How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
ASV I will cry unto God with my voice, Even unto God with my voice; and he will give ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
ASV O Jehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save.
Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear. But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
ASV Behold, Jehovah’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, so that he will not hear.
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
ASV Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
ASV If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear:
Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
ASV Jehovah is far from the wicked; But he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
ASV For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.
Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
ASV Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
ASV saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.