David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’

But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”

Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told …

In my distress I called upon the LORD; I cried out to my God. And from His temple He heard my voice, and …

David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but …

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your …

then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.

then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the …

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in …

be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his …

so that they may fear You all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.

And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—

for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all …

When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction …

then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.

When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an …

and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in …

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and …

then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause.

May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant …

Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.

And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: …