Isaiah 37:14

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Isaiah 37:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?

13 Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”

14 So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

15 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:

16 “O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

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2 Kings 19:14

So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

Isaiah 37:1

On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.

1 Kings 8:28

Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.

1 Kings 8:29

May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 8:30

Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.

1 Kings 8:38

then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

1 Kings 9:3

And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

2 Chronicles 6:20

May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

2 Chronicles 6:21

Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.

2 Chronicles 6:22

When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,

2 Chronicles 6:23

then may You hear from heaven and act. May You judge Your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing down on his own head what he has done, and justifying the righteous man by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

2 Chronicles 6:24

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple,

2 Chronicles 6:25

then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers.

2 Chronicles 6:26

When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

2 Chronicles 6:27

then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 6:28

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

2 Chronicles 6:29

then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

2 Chronicles 6:30

be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—

2 Chronicles 6:31

so that they may fear You and walk in Your ways all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.

2 Chronicles 6:32

And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,

2 Chronicles 6:33

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.

2 Chronicles 6:34

When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,

2 Chronicles 6:35

then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

2 Chronicles 6:36

When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to a land far or near,

2 Chronicles 6:37

and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’

2 Chronicles 6:38

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

2 Chronicles 6:39

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.

2 Chronicles 6:40

Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

2 Chronicles 6:41

Now therefore, arise, O LORD God, and enter Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might. May Your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may Your godly ones rejoice in goodness.

2 Chronicles 6:42

O LORD God, do not reject Your anointed one. Remember Your loving devotion to Your servant David.”

Psalms 27:5

For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.

Psalms 62:1

In God alone my soul finds rest; my salvation comes from Him.

Psalms 62:2

He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.

Psalms 62:3

How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?

Psalms 74:10

How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

Psalms 76:1

God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.

Psalms 76:2

His tent is in Salem, His dwelling place in Zion.

Psalms 76:3

There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah

Psalms 123:1

I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.

Psalms 123:2

As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.

Psalms 123:3

Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.

Psalms 123:4

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

Psalms 143:6

I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

Joel 2:17

Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

Joel 2:18

Then the LORD became jealous for His land, and He spared His people.

Joel 2:19

And the LORD answered His people: “Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, and by them you will be satisfied. I will never again make you a reproach among the nations.

Joel 2:20

The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.