And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.
And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.
Did Hezekiah and all Judah put him to death? did he not in the fear of the Lord make prayer for the grace of the Lord, and the Lord let himself be turned from the decision he had made against them for evil? By this act we might do great evil against ourselves.
And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.
And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace.
Now after I had given the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, I made my prayer to the Lord, saying,
Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?
It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.
And now be pleased to give ear, O my lord the king; let my prayer for help come before you, and do not make me go back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, for fear that I may come to my death there.
And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Make prayer now to the Lord our God for us.
And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:
For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.
In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.
And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.
It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.
From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.
Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?
You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.
He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;
So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.
And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.
And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Give now a cry for help; is there anyone who will give you an answer? and to which of the holy ones will you make your prayer?
But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:
If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!
And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.
And I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you for ever,
In that day you will make requests in my name: and I do not say that I will make prayer to the Father for you,
My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.
My prayer is not for them only, but for all who will have faith in me through their word;
My prayer is for them: my prayer is not for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, because they are yours
In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.
So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.
And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.
Then Jonah made prayer to the Lord his God from the inside of the fish, and said,
When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.
And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
Then Manoah made prayer to the Lord, and said, O Lord, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and make clear to us what we are to do for the child who is to come.
Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.
And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.
Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.
You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.
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