Matthew 6:7 “The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They’re full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting wh...

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The Message - “The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They’re full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don’t fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what’s best— as above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You’re in charge! You can do anything you want! You’re ablaze in beauty! Yes. Yes. Yes.
新标点和合本 - 你们祷告，不可像外邦人，用许多重复话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你们祷告，不可像外邦人那样重复一些空话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你们祷告，不可像外邦人那样重复一些空话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。
当代译本 - “你们祷告时不可像外族人那样喋喋不休，他们以为长篇大论，就必蒙垂听。
圣经新译本 - 你们祈祷的时候，不可重复无意义的话，像教外人一样，他们以为话多了就蒙垂听。
中文标准译本 - 你们祷告的时候，不要像外邦人那样，重复无意义的话。他们以为话多了就蒙垂听。
现代标点和合本 - 你们祷告，不可像外邦人用许多重复话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。
和合本（拼音版） - 你们祷告，不可像外邦人，用许多重复话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。
New International Version - And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
New International Reader's Version - When you pray, do not keep talking on and on. That is what ungodly people do. They think they will be heard because they talk a lot.
English Standard Version - “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
New Living Translation - “When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again.
Christian Standard Bible - When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.
New American Standard Bible - “And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
New King James Version - And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Amplified Bible - “And when you pray, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
American Standard Version - And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
King James Version - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
New English Translation - When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.
World English Bible - In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
新標點和合本 - 你們禱告，不可像外邦人，用許多重複話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你們禱告，不可像外邦人那樣重複一些空話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你們禱告，不可像外邦人那樣重複一些空話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。
當代譯本 - 「你們禱告時不可像外族人那樣喋喋不休，他們以為長篇大論，就必蒙垂聽。
聖經新譯本 - 你們祈禱的時候，不可重複無意義的話，像教外人一樣，他們以為話多了就蒙垂聽。
呂振中譯本 - 『你們禱告，不要嘮嘮叨叨、像外國人一樣；他們以為用了他們那種重複話，才可以蒙垂聽。
中文標準譯本 - 你們禱告的時候，不要像外邦人那樣，重複無意義的話。他們以為話多了就蒙垂聽。
現代標點和合本 - 你們禱告，不可像外邦人用許多重複話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。
文理和合譯本 - 爾祈禱、語勿重複、如異邦人、彼以為言多乃得升聞也、
文理委辦譯本 - 爾祈禱時、語勿反覆、如異邦人、彼以為言多、乃得聲聞也、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 且爾祈禱時、語勿反覆、如異邦人、彼以為言多、必蒙聽允、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 祈禱時、毋多言、如異邦人之所為；蓋彼以為冗長其辭、必蒙垂聽矣。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Y al orar, no hablen solo por hablar como hacen los gentiles, porque ellos se imaginan que serán escuchados por sus muchas palabras.
현대인의 성경 - 너희는 기도할 때 이방인들처럼 쓸데없는 말을 되풀이하지 말아라. 그들은 말을 많이 해야 하나님이 들어주실 것으로 생각한다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Когда вы молитесь, то не болтайте попусту, как это делают язычники, которые думают, что будут услышаны благодаря своему многословию.
Восточный перевод - Когда вы молитесь, то не болтайте попусту, как это делают язычники, которые думают, что будут услышаны благодаря своему многословию.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Когда вы молитесь, то не болтайте попусту, как это делают язычники, которые думают, что будут услышаны благодаря своему многословию.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Когда вы молитесь, то не болтайте попусту, как это делают язычники, которые думают, что будут услышаны благодаря своему многословию.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Dans vos prières, ne rabâchez pas des tas de paroles, à la manière des païens ; ils s’imaginent qu’à force de paroles Dieu les entendra.
リビングバイブル - ほんとうの神を知らない人たちのように、同じ文句を何度も唱えてはいけません。彼らは、同じ文句をくり返しさえすれば、祈りが聞かれると思っているのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - Προσευχόμενοι δὲ μὴ βατταλογήσητε ὥσπερ οἱ ἐθνικοί, δοκοῦσιν γὰρ ὅτι ἐν τῇ πολυλογίᾳ αὐτῶν εἰσακουσθήσονται.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - προσευχόμενοι δὲ μὴ βατταλογήσητε ὥσπερ οἱ ἐθνικοί; δοκοῦσιν γὰρ ὅτι ἐν τῇ πολυλογίᾳ αὐτῶν εἰσακουσθήσονται.
Nova Versão Internacional - E, quando orarem, não fiquem sempre repetindo a mesma coisa, como fazem os pagãos. Eles pensam que por muito falarem serão ouvidos.
Hoffnung für alle - Leiere nicht gedankenlos Gebete herunter wie Leute, die Gott nicht kennen . Sie meinen, sie würden bei Gott etwas erreichen, wenn sie nur viele Worte machen.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Khi cầu nguyện, các con đừng lảm nhảm nhiều lời như người ngoại đạo, vì họ tưởng phải lặp lại lời cầu nguyện mới linh nghiệm.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - และเมื่อท่านอธิษฐาน ไม่ต้องพูดพร่ำซ้ำซากเหมือนคนต่างศาสนา เพราะเขาคิดว่าพูดมากๆ พระจึงจะได้ยิน
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เวลาที่ท่านอธิษฐาน ก็อย่าใช้คำพูดยืดยาวที่ไม่มีความหมายดังเช่นบรรดาคนนอกกระทำกัน เพราะเขาเหล่านั้นคิดว่าคำอธิษฐานอันยืดยาวจะเป็นที่ได้ยิน

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Daniel 9:18 - “‘Turn your ears our way, God, and listen. Open your eyes and take a long look at our ruined city, this city named after you. We know that we don’t deserve a hearing from you. Our appeal is to your compassion. This prayer is our last and only hope:
Daniel 9:19 - “‘Master, listen to us! Master, forgive us! Master, look at us and do something! Master, don’t put us off! Your city and your people are named after you: You have a stake in us!’
Matthew 26:42 - He then left them a second time. Again he prayed, “My Father, if there is no other way than this, drinking this cup to the dregs, I’m ready. Do it your way.”
1 Kings 8:26 - O God of Israel, let this all happen; confirm and establish it!
1 Kings 8:27 - Can it be that God will actually move into our neighborhood? Why, the cosmos itself isn’t large enough to give you breathing room, let alone this Temple I’ve built. Even so, I’m bold to ask: Pay attention to these my prayers, both intercessory and personal, O God, my God. Listen to my prayers, energetic and devout, that I’m setting before you right now. Keep your eyes open to this Temple night and day, this place of which you said, “My Name will be honored there,” and listen to the prayers that I pray at this place. Listen from your home in heaven and when you hear, forgive. When someone hurts a neighbor and promises to make things right, and then comes and repeats the promise before your Altar in this Temple, listen from heaven and act accordingly: Judge your servants, making the offender pay for his offense and setting the offended free of any charges.
1 Kings 8:33 - When your people Israel are beaten by an enemy because they’ve sinned against you, but then turn to you and acknowledge your rule in prayers desperate and devout in this Temple, Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, return them to the land you gave their ancestors.
1 Kings 8:35 - When the skies shrivel up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, but then they pray at this place, acknowledging your rule and quitting their sins because you have scourged them, Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Then start over with them: Train them to live right and well; send rain on the land you gave your people as an inheritance.
1 Kings 8:37 - When disasters strike, famine or catastrophe, crop failure or disease, locust or beetle, or when an enemy attacks their defenses—calamity of any sort—any prayer that’s prayed from anyone at all among your people Israel, hearts penetrated by the disaster, hands and arms thrown out to this Temple for help, Listen from your home in heaven. Forgive and go to work on us. Give what each deserves, for you know each life from the inside (you’re the only one with such “inside knowledge”!) so that they’ll live before you in lifelong reverent and believing obedience on this land you gave our ancestors.
1 Kings 8:41 - And don’t forget the foreigner who is not a member of your people Israel but has come from a far country because of your reputation. People are going to be attracted here by your great reputation, your wonder-working power, who come to pray at this Temple. Listen from your home in heaven. Honor the prayers of the foreigner so that people all over the world will know who you are and what you’re like and will live in reverent obedience before you, just as your own people Israel do; so they’ll know that you personally make this Temple that I’ve built what it is.
1 Kings 8:44 - When your people go to war against their enemies at the time and place you send them and they pray to God toward the city you chose and this Temple I’ve built to honor your Name, Listen from heaven to what they pray and ask for, and do what’s right for them. When they sin against you—and they certainly will; there’s no one without sin!—and in anger you turn them over to the enemy and they are taken captive to the enemy’s land, whether far or near, but repent in the country of their captivity and pray with changed hearts in their exile, “We’ve sinned; we’ve done wrong; we’ve been most wicked,” and turn back to you heart and soul in the land of the enemy who conquered them, and pray to you toward their homeland, the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you chose, and this Temple I have built to the honor of your Name, Listen from your home in heaven to their prayers desperate and devout and do what is best for them. Forgive your people who have sinned against you; forgive their gross rebellions and move their captors to treat them with compassion. They are, after all, your people and your precious inheritance whom you rescued from the heart of that iron-smelting furnace, Egypt!
1 Kings 8:52 - O be alert and attentive to the needy prayers of me, your servant, and your dear people Israel; listen every time they cry out to you! You handpicked them from all the peoples on earth to be your very own people, as you announced through your servant Moses when you, O God, in your masterful rule, delivered our ancestors from Egypt. * * *
1 Kings 8:54 - Having finished praying to God—all these bold and passionate prayers—Solomon stood up before God’s Altar where he had been kneeling all this time, his arms stretched upward to heaven. Standing, he blessed the whole congregation of Israel, blessing them at the top of his lungs:
Matthew 26:39 - Going a little ahead, he fell on his face, praying, “My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?”
1 Kings 18:26 - So they took the ox he had given them, prepared it for the altar, then prayed to Baal. They prayed all morning long, “O Baal, answer us!” But nothing happened—not so much as a whisper of breeze. Desperate, they jumped and stomped on the altar they had made.
1 Kings 18:27 - By noon, Elijah had started making fun of them, taunting, “Call a little louder—he is a god, after all. Maybe he’s off meditating somewhere or other, or maybe he’s gotten involved in a project, or maybe he’s on vacation. You don’t suppose he’s overslept, do you, and needs to be waked up?” They prayed louder and louder, cutting themselves with swords and knives—a ritual common to them—until they were covered with blood.
1 Kings 18:29 - This went on until well past noon. They used every religious trick and strategy they knew to make something happen on the altar, but nothing happened—not so much as a whisper, not a flicker of response.
Ecclesiastes 5:7 - But against all illusion and fantasy and empty talk There’s always this rock foundation: Fear God!
Ecclesiastes 5:2 - Don’t shoot off your mouth, or speak before you think. Don’t be too quick to tell God what you think he wants to hear. God’s in charge, not you—the less you speak, the better.
Ecclesiastes 5:3 - Overwork makes for restless sleep. Overtalk shows you up as a fool.

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The Message - “The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They’re full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don’t fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what’s best— as above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You’re in charge! You can do anything you want! You’re ablaze in beauty! Yes. Yes. Yes.
新标点和合本 - 你们祷告，不可像外邦人，用许多重复话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你们祷告，不可像外邦人那样重复一些空话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你们祷告，不可像外邦人那样重复一些空话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。
当代译本 - “你们祷告时不可像外族人那样喋喋不休，他们以为长篇大论，就必蒙垂听。
圣经新译本 - 你们祈祷的时候，不可重复无意义的话，像教外人一样，他们以为话多了就蒙垂听。
中文标准译本 - 你们祷告的时候，不要像外邦人那样，重复无意义的话。他们以为话多了就蒙垂听。
现代标点和合本 - 你们祷告，不可像外邦人用许多重复话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。
和合本（拼音版） - 你们祷告，不可像外邦人，用许多重复话，他们以为话多了必蒙垂听。
New International Version - And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
New International Reader's Version - When you pray, do not keep talking on and on. That is what ungodly people do. They think they will be heard because they talk a lot.
English Standard Version - “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.
New Living Translation - “When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again.
Christian Standard Bible - When you pray, don’t babble like the Gentiles, since they imagine they’ll be heard for their many words.
New American Standard Bible - “And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.
New King James Version - And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Amplified Bible - “And when you pray, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
American Standard Version - And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
King James Version - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
New English Translation - When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.
World English Bible - In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
新標點和合本 - 你們禱告，不可像外邦人，用許多重複話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你們禱告，不可像外邦人那樣重複一些空話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你們禱告，不可像外邦人那樣重複一些空話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。
當代譯本 - 「你們禱告時不可像外族人那樣喋喋不休，他們以為長篇大論，就必蒙垂聽。
聖經新譯本 - 你們祈禱的時候，不可重複無意義的話，像教外人一樣，他們以為話多了就蒙垂聽。
呂振中譯本 - 『你們禱告，不要嘮嘮叨叨、像外國人一樣；他們以為用了他們那種重複話，才可以蒙垂聽。
中文標準譯本 - 你們禱告的時候，不要像外邦人那樣，重複無意義的話。他們以為話多了就蒙垂聽。
現代標點和合本 - 你們禱告，不可像外邦人用許多重複話，他們以為話多了必蒙垂聽。
文理和合譯本 - 爾祈禱、語勿重複、如異邦人、彼以為言多乃得升聞也、
文理委辦譯本 - 爾祈禱時、語勿反覆、如異邦人、彼以為言多、乃得聲聞也、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 且爾祈禱時、語勿反覆、如異邦人、彼以為言多、必蒙聽允、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 祈禱時、毋多言、如異邦人之所為；蓋彼以為冗長其辭、必蒙垂聽矣。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Y al orar, no hablen solo por hablar como hacen los gentiles, porque ellos se imaginan que serán escuchados por sus muchas palabras.
현대인의 성경 - 너희는 기도할 때 이방인들처럼 쓸데없는 말을 되풀이하지 말아라. 그들은 말을 많이 해야 하나님이 들어주실 것으로 생각한다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Когда вы молитесь, то не болтайте попусту, как это делают язычники, которые думают, что будут услышаны благодаря своему многословию.
Восточный перевод - Когда вы молитесь, то не болтайте попусту, как это делают язычники, которые думают, что будут услышаны благодаря своему многословию.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Когда вы молитесь, то не болтайте попусту, как это делают язычники, которые думают, что будут услышаны благодаря своему многословию.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Когда вы молитесь, то не болтайте попусту, как это делают язычники, которые думают, что будут услышаны благодаря своему многословию.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Dans vos prières, ne rabâchez pas des tas de paroles, à la manière des païens ; ils s’imaginent qu’à force de paroles Dieu les entendra.
リビングバイブル - ほんとうの神を知らない人たちのように、同じ文句を何度も唱えてはいけません。彼らは、同じ文句をくり返しさえすれば、祈りが聞かれると思っているのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - Προσευχόμενοι δὲ μὴ βατταλογήσητε ὥσπερ οἱ ἐθνικοί, δοκοῦσιν γὰρ ὅτι ἐν τῇ πολυλογίᾳ αὐτῶν εἰσακουσθήσονται.
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - προσευχόμενοι δὲ μὴ βατταλογήσητε ὥσπερ οἱ ἐθνικοί; δοκοῦσιν γὰρ ὅτι ἐν τῇ πολυλογίᾳ αὐτῶν εἰσακουσθήσονται.
Nova Versão Internacional - E, quando orarem, não fiquem sempre repetindo a mesma coisa, como fazem os pagãos. Eles pensam que por muito falarem serão ouvidos.
Hoffnung für alle - Leiere nicht gedankenlos Gebete herunter wie Leute, die Gott nicht kennen . Sie meinen, sie würden bei Gott etwas erreichen, wenn sie nur viele Worte machen.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Khi cầu nguyện, các con đừng lảm nhảm nhiều lời như người ngoại đạo, vì họ tưởng phải lặp lại lời cầu nguyện mới linh nghiệm.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - และเมื่อท่านอธิษฐาน ไม่ต้องพูดพร่ำซ้ำซากเหมือนคนต่างศาสนา เพราะเขาคิดว่าพูดมากๆ พระจึงจะได้ยิน
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เวลาที่ท่านอธิษฐาน ก็อย่าใช้คำพูดยืดยาวที่ไม่มีความหมายดังเช่นบรรดาคนนอกกระทำกัน เพราะเขาเหล่านั้นคิดว่าคำอธิษฐานอันยืดยาวจะเป็นที่ได้ยิน

Daniel 9:18 - “‘Turn your ears our way, God, and listen. Open your eyes and take a long look at our ruined city, this city named after you. We know that we don’t deserve a hearing from you. Our appeal is to your compassion. This prayer is our last and only hope:
Daniel 9:19 - “‘Master, listen to us! Master, forgive us! Master, look at us and do something! Master, don’t put us off! Your city and your people are named after you: You have a stake in us!’
Matthew 26:42 - He then left them a second time. Again he prayed, “My Father, if there is no other way than this, drinking this cup to the dregs, I’m ready. Do it your way.”
1 Kings 8:26 - O God of Israel, let this all happen; confirm and establish it!
1 Kings 8:27 - Can it be that God will actually move into our neighborhood? Why, the cosmos itself isn’t large enough to give you breathing room, let alone this Temple I’ve built. Even so, I’m bold to ask: Pay attention to these my prayers, both intercessory and personal, O God, my God. Listen to my prayers, energetic and devout, that I’m setting before you right now. Keep your eyes open to this Temple night and day, this place of which you said, “My Name will be honored there,” and listen to the prayers that I pray at this place. Listen from your home in heaven and when you hear, forgive. When someone hurts a neighbor and promises to make things right, and then comes and repeats the promise before your Altar in this Temple, listen from heaven and act accordingly: Judge your servants, making the offender pay for his offense and setting the offended free of any charges.
1 Kings 8:33 - When your people Israel are beaten by an enemy because they’ve sinned against you, but then turn to you and acknowledge your rule in prayers desperate and devout in this Temple, Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, return them to the land you gave their ancestors.
1 Kings 8:35 - When the skies shrivel up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, but then they pray at this place, acknowledging your rule and quitting their sins because you have scourged them, Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Then start over with them: Train them to live right and well; send rain on the land you gave your people as an inheritance.
1 Kings 8:37 - When disasters strike, famine or catastrophe, crop failure or disease, locust or beetle, or when an enemy attacks their defenses—calamity of any sort—any prayer that’s prayed from anyone at all among your people Israel, hearts penetrated by the disaster, hands and arms thrown out to this Temple for help, Listen from your home in heaven. Forgive and go to work on us. Give what each deserves, for you know each life from the inside (you’re the only one with such “inside knowledge”!) so that they’ll live before you in lifelong reverent and believing obedience on this land you gave our ancestors.
1 Kings 8:41 - And don’t forget the foreigner who is not a member of your people Israel but has come from a far country because of your reputation. People are going to be attracted here by your great reputation, your wonder-working power, who come to pray at this Temple. Listen from your home in heaven. Honor the prayers of the foreigner so that people all over the world will know who you are and what you’re like and will live in reverent obedience before you, just as your own people Israel do; so they’ll know that you personally make this Temple that I’ve built what it is.
1 Kings 8:44 - When your people go to war against their enemies at the time and place you send them and they pray to God toward the city you chose and this Temple I’ve built to honor your Name, Listen from heaven to what they pray and ask for, and do what’s right for them. When they sin against you—and they certainly will; there’s no one without sin!—and in anger you turn them over to the enemy and they are taken captive to the enemy’s land, whether far or near, but repent in the country of their captivity and pray with changed hearts in their exile, “We’ve sinned; we’ve done wrong; we’ve been most wicked,” and turn back to you heart and soul in the land of the enemy who conquered them, and pray to you toward their homeland, the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you chose, and this Temple I have built to the honor of your Name, Listen from your home in heaven to their prayers desperate and devout and do what is best for them. Forgive your people who have sinned against you; forgive their gross rebellions and move their captors to treat them with compassion. They are, after all, your people and your precious inheritance whom you rescued from the heart of that iron-smelting furnace, Egypt!
1 Kings 8:52 - O be alert and attentive to the needy prayers of me, your servant, and your dear people Israel; listen every time they cry out to you! You handpicked them from all the peoples on earth to be your very own people, as you announced through your servant Moses when you, O God, in your masterful rule, delivered our ancestors from Egypt. * * *
1 Kings 8:54 - Having finished praying to God—all these bold and passionate prayers—Solomon stood up before God’s Altar where he had been kneeling all this time, his arms stretched upward to heaven. Standing, he blessed the whole congregation of Israel, blessing them at the top of his lungs:
Matthew 26:39 - Going a little ahead, he fell on his face, praying, “My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?”
1 Kings 18:26 - So they took the ox he had given them, prepared it for the altar, then prayed to Baal. They prayed all morning long, “O Baal, answer us!” But nothing happened—not so much as a whisper of breeze. Desperate, they jumped and stomped on the altar they had made.
1 Kings 18:27 - By noon, Elijah had started making fun of them, taunting, “Call a little louder—he is a god, after all. Maybe he’s off meditating somewhere or other, or maybe he’s gotten involved in a project, or maybe he’s on vacation. You don’t suppose he’s overslept, do you, and needs to be waked up?” They prayed louder and louder, cutting themselves with swords and knives—a ritual common to them—until they were covered with blood.
1 Kings 18:29 - This went on until well past noon. They used every religious trick and strategy they knew to make something happen on the altar, but nothing happened—not so much as a whisper, not a flicker of response.
Ecclesiastes 5:7 - But against all illusion and fantasy and empty talk There’s always this rock foundation: Fear God!
Ecclesiastes 5:2 - Don’t shoot off your mouth, or speak before you think. Don’t be too quick to tell God what you think he wants to hear. God’s in charge, not you—the less you speak, the better.
Ecclesiastes 5:3 - Overwork makes for restless sleep. Overtalk shows you up as a fool.