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and with that, vanish the hill-shrines of false worship, Israel’s darling sin; grows thorn and thistle on their altars; no prayer have the men of Israel now but that mountains should fall on them, hills should bury them alive. (Hosea 10, 8)
The false gods of Ephraim are forgotten; mine to answer his prayer and tend him, ever-green as a fir-tree; from me all thy increase comes. (Hosea 14, 9)
This was the prayer which Jonas made to the Lord his God, there in the belly of the sea-beast: (Jonah 2, 2)
Daunted this heart, yet still of the Lord I would bethink me; prayer of mine should reach him, far away in his holy temple! (Jonah 2, 8)
And thus he made his prayer to the Lord: See if this be not the very thought I had, far away in my own country! Good cause had I to seek refuge at Tharsis from such an errand as this. I knew from the first what manner of God thou art, how kind and merciful, how slow to punish, how rich in pardon, vengeance ever ready to forgo. (Jonah 4, 2)
Up rose the sun, and at the Lord’s bidding the sirocco came; here was Jonas with the sun’s rays beating on his head, and all of a sweat. Now indeed his heart’s prayer was, he might die; Better death than life, said he. (Jonah 4, 8)
And thy prayer was, stock and stone should wake up and come to thy aid, senseless things that cannot signify their will;✻ nay, breath in their bodies have none, for all they are tricked out with gold and silver! (Habakkuk 2, 19)
A prayer of the prophet Habacuc for Shigionoth.✻ (Habakkuk 3, 1)
On David’s clan, on all the citizens of Jerusalem, I will pour out a gracious spirit of prayer; towards me they shall look, me whom they have pierced through.✻ Lament for him they must, and grieve bitterly; never was such lament for an only son, grief so bitter over first-born dead. (Zechariah 12, 10)
Moreover, when you are at prayer, do not use many phrases, like the heathens, who think to make themselves heard by their eloquence.✻ (Matthew 6, 7)
This, then, is to be your prayer, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; (Matthew 6, 9)
But there is no way of casting out such spirits as this except by prayer and fasting. (Matthew 17, 20)
