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Psalms 62:1-3
I am at rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.He alone is my rock and my salvation, my stronghold; I will never be shaken.How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you attack as if he were a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
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2 Chronicles 6 20-2 Chronicles 6 42
so that your eyes watch over this temple day and night, toward the place where you said you would put your name; and so that you may hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place.Hear the petitions of your servant and your people Israel, which they pray toward this place. May you hear in your dwelling place in heaven. May you hear and forgive.If a man sins against his neighbor and is forced to take an oath and he comes to take an oath before your altar in this temple,may you hear in heaven and act. May you judge your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing what he has done on his own head and providing justice for the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.If your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against you, and they return to you and praise your name, and they pray and plead for mercy before you in this temple,may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel. May you restore them to the land you gave them and their ancestors.When the skies are shut and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and they pray toward this place and praise your name, and they turn from their sins because you are afflicting them,may you hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, so that you may teach them the good way they should walk in. May you send rain on your land that you gave your people for an inheritance.When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, when their enemies besiege them in the land and its cities, when there is any plague or illness,every prayer or petition that any person or that all your people Israel may have— they each know their own affliction and suffering— as they spread out their hands toward this temple,may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and may you forgive and give to everyone according to all their ways, since you know each heart, for you alone know the human heart,so that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days they live on the land you gave our ancestors.Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your strong hand and outstretched arm: when he comes and prays toward this temple,may you hear in heaven in your dwelling place, and do all the foreigner asks you. Then all the peoples of the earth will know your name, to fear you as your people Israel do and know that this temple I have built bears your name.When your people go out to fight against their enemies, wherever you send them, and they pray to you in the direction of this city you have chosen and the temple that I have built for your name,may you hear their prayer and petition in heaven and uphold their cause.When they sin against you— for there is no one who does not sin— and you are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, and their captors deport them to a distant or nearby country,and when they come to their senses in the land where they were deported and repent and petition you in their captors’ land, saying,“ We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked,”and when they return to you with all their mind and all their heart in the land of their captivity where they were taken captive, and when they pray in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, and the city you have chosen, and toward the temple I have built for your name,may you hear their prayer and petitions in heaven, your dwelling place, and uphold their cause. May you forgive your people who sinned against you.Now, my God, please let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.Now therefore: Arise, LORD God, come to your resting place, you and your powerful ark. May your priests, LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and may your faithful people rejoice in goodness.LORD God, do not reject your anointed one; remember your servant David’s acts of faithful love.
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2 Kings 19 14
Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers’ hands, read it, then went up to the LORD’s temple, and spread it out before the LORD.
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1 Kings 8 28-1 Kings 8 30
Listen to your servant’s prayer and his petition, LORD my God, so that you may hear the cry and the prayer that your servant prays before you today,so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day, toward the place where you said,“ My name will be there,” and so that you may hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.Hear the petition of your servant and your people Israel, which they pray toward this place. May you hear in your dwelling place in heaven. May you hear and forgive.
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1 Kings 9 3
The LORD said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.
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Psalms 76:1-3
God is known in Judah; his name is great in Israel.His tent is in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.There he shatters the bow’s flaming arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah
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Psalms 143:6
I spread out my hands to you; I am like parched land before you. Selah
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Psalms 74:10
God, how long will the enemy mock? Will the foe insult your name forever?
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Psalms 123:1-4
I lift my eyes to you, the one enthroned in heaven.Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand, like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until he shows us favor.Show us favor, LORD, show us favor, for we’ve had more than enough contempt.We’ve had more than enough scorn from the arrogant and contempt from the proud.
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1 Kings 8 38
every prayer or petition that any person or that all your people Israel may have— they each know their own affliction— as they spread out their hands toward this temple,
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Isaiah 37:1
When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went to the LORD’s temple.
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Psalms 27:5
For he will conceal me in his shelter in the day of adversity; he will hide me under the cover of his tent; he will set me high on a rock.
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Joel 2:17-20
Let the priests, the LORD’s ministers, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say,“ Have pity on your people, LORD, and do not make your inheritance a disgrace, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples,‘ Where is their God?’”Then the LORD became jealous for his land and spared his people.The LORD answered his people: Look, I am about to send you grain, new wine, and fresh oil. You will be satiated with them, and I will no longer make you a disgrace among the nations.I will drive the northerner far from you and banish him to a dry and desolate land, his front ranks into the Dead Sea, and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea. His stench will rise; yes, his rotten smell will rise, for he has done astonishing things.
