Psalms 5:2-3
2Give attention to the sound of my cry,my aKing and my God,
for bto you do I pray.
3O Lord, in cthe morning you hear my voice;
in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you ▼
▼Or I direct my prayer to you
and ewatch.Psalms 119:62
62At fmidnight I rise to praise you,because of your grighteous rules.
Psalms 119:147-148
147I rise before hdawn and cry for help;I ihope in your words.
148My eyes are awake before jthe watches of the night,
that I may meditate on your promise.
Daniel 6:10
10When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where khe had windows in his upper chamber open ltoward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees mthree times a day and prayed and ngave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.Daniel 6:13
13Then they answered and said before the king, o“Daniel, who is one pof the exiles qfrom Judah, rpays no attention to you, O king, or sthe injunction you have signed, but makes his petition tthree times a day.”Mark 1:35
Jesus Preaches in Galilee
35 uAnd rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and vthere he prayed.Mark 6:46
46And after he had taken leave of them, whe went up on the mountain to pray.Mark 6:48
48And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about xthe fourth watch of the night ▼▼That is, between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.
he came to them, walking on the sea. zHe meant to pass by them, Luke 18:1-7
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
1And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought aaalways to pray and not ablose heart. 2He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who acneither 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, ad‘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 aewill not God give justice to afhis elect, agwho cry to him day and night? ah, aiWill he delay long over them?
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