¹⁷ In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

¹ Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer;

¹⁷ Keep on with your prayers.

¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

² Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.

³ He saw in a vision, clearly, at about the ninth hour of the day, an angel of the Lord coming to him and saying to him, Cornelius!

⁹ Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:

³⁰ And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,

⁷ Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.

¹⁰ For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.

² To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night;

¹ And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

² Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man:

³ And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.

⁴ And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,

⁵ Because this widow is a trouble to me, I will give her her right; for if not, I will be completely tired out by her frequent coming.

⁶ And the Lord said, Give ear to the words of the evil judge.

⁷ And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

⁴⁶ And after he had sent them away, he went up into a mountain for prayer.

² Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.

³ My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.

¹³ But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you.

⁶² In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.

¹⁴⁷ Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words.

¹⁴⁸ In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

¹³ Then they came near before the king and said, O King, have you not put your name to an order that any man who makes a request to any god or man but you, O King, for thirty days, is to be put into the lions' hole? The king made answer and said, The thing is fixed by the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.

³⁵ And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

⁴⁸ And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them;

⁸ Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

⁷ Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.