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Old Testament Prayers

Petitions, praise, and faith: the prayers of the Old Testament inspire us to trust God and seek His guidance at all times. A Selection of Prayers. Deuteronomy: Moses Intercedes So the People Would Not Be Destroyed. 25 So I fell down before the LORD; forty days and forty…

Pastor René Castillo Picazo · 8 min

Petitions, praise, and faith: the prayers of the Old Testament inspire us to trust God and seek His guidance at all times.

A Selection of Prayers

Deuteronomy

Moses Intercedes So the People Would Not Be Destroyed

25 So I fell down before the LORD; forty days and forty nights I lay prostrate, because the LORD had said He would destroy you. 26 And I prayed to the LORD, saying: O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look at the stubbornness of this people, or at their wickedness or their sin, 28 lest the land from which You brought us say: Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which He promised them, or because He hated them, He brought them out to kill them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm.

Nehemiah

Nehemiah's Prayer for Jerusalem

1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in Susa the capital, 2 that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with some men from Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and about Jerusalem. 3 And they said to me: The remnant, those who survived the captivity, are there in the province in great trouble and reproach, and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.

4 When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned for some days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven. 5 And I said: I beg You, O LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments, 6 let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open, to hear the prayer of Your servant which I now pray before You day and night for the children of Israel Your servants; and I confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have committed against You; yes, I and my father's house have sinned. 7 We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses. 8 Remember now the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying: If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples; 9 but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name. 10 Now these are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power and by Your mighty hand. 11 O Lord, I beg You, let Your ear now be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to revere Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

Psalms

Psalm 86

A Prayer Asking for God's Continued Mercy

86 Bow down Your ear, O LORD, hear me, for I am poor and needy. 2 Preserve my life, for I am holy; save Your servant who trusts in You, O my God. 3 Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I cry to You all day long. 4 Rejoice the soul of Your servant, for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. 5 For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all who call upon You. 6 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications. 7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, for You will answer me. 8 Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord, nor are there any works like Your works. 9 All nations You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name. 10 For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God. 11 Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name. 12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore. 13 For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol. 14 O God, the proud have risen against me, and a mob of violent men have sought my life, and have not set You before them. 15 But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth. 16 Look upon me, and have mercy on me; give Your strength to Your servant, and save the son of Your maidservant. 17 Show me a sign for good, that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed, because You, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

Daniel

Daniel's Prayer for His People

9 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, 2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the LORD through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking Him in prayer and supplication, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. 4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, saying: O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments, 5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. 6 We have not heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers, and all the people of the land.

7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day — to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they committed against You. 8 O LORD, to us belongs shame of face — to our kings, our princes, and our fathers — because we have sinned against You. 9 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him, 10 and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

11 Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has turned away so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us such great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

13 As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not implored the favor of the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth. 14 Therefore the LORD kept the disaster in mind and brought it upon us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works He has done, because we did not obey His voice.

15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day — we have sinned, we have done wickedly. 16 O Lord, according to all Your righteous acts, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.

17 Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant and his supplications, and for the Lord's sake cause Your face to shine on Your desolate sanctuary. 18 O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, 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 mercies. 19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay, for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.

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