1 Kings 8:28
28Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Lord my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you this day,Psalms 74:20
20 Have regard for athe covenant,for bthe dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
Psalms 130:2
2O Lord, hear my voice!cLet your ears be attentive
to dthe voice of my pleas for mercy!
Daniel 9:17-19
17Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, ▼▼Hebrew for the Lord’s sake
fmake your face to shine upon gyour sanctuary, which is desolate. 18 hO my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see iour desolations, and jthe city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. 19O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. kDelay not, lfor your own sake, O my God, because myour city and nyour people are called by your name.” Luke 18:1-7
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
1And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought oalways to pray and not plose heart. 2He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who qneither feared God nor respected man. 3And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, r‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, 5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” 6And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. 7And swill not God give justice to this elect, uwho cry to him day and night? v, wWill he delay long over them?
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