Prayers for provision and prosperity from the psalms, read honestly, next to what the same book says about riches.
The psalms pray openly about money. People call themselves poor and needy and ask God not to delay. One verse asks outright: send prosperity now. The same book warns against setting your heart on riches, and it never promises wealth in return for reading a psalm. The word money appears only once in the Psalms, in 15:5, where the person God welcomes does not lend it out for usury or take a bribe.
The picks are grouped as prayers when money is short, prayers for prosperity, what the psalms say about wealth, and lending, debt and giving. Notes below answer whether there is a psalm for financial breakthrough or to attract money. Tick verses to print them on one sheet.
These psalms were prayed by people who say plainly that they are poor. They ask for help and name God as the helper.
But I am poor and needy.May the Lord think about me.You are my help and my deliverer.Don’t delay, my God.
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
I am poor and needy, may the Lord think about me. The prayer ends with don't delay, and Psalm 70:5 repeats almost the same words.
Hear, LORD, and answer me,for I am poor and needy.
Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
The reason given for being heard is the need itself: for I am poor and needy. The heading calls Psalm 86 a prayer by David.
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him,and saved him out of all his troubles.
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Told as testimony, in the past tense: this poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
The eyes of all wait for you.You give them their food in due season.
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
The eyes of all wait for you, and food comes in due season. Verse 16 adds that God opens his hand and satisfies every living thing.
I have been young, and now am old,yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,nor his children begging for bread.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
One person's observation over a long life, from young to old: he has not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
The word prosperity does appear in the psalms. It is prayed for, often for a people or a city, and it sits next to peace and righteousness.
Save us now, we beg you, LORD!LORD, we beg you, send prosperity now.
Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
A direct request: LORD, we beg you, send prosperity now. It stands beside the plea save us now.
Peace be within your walls,and prosperity within your palaces.
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
Peace within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces. The prayer is for Jerusalem, and verse 6 says those who love her will prosper.
Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad.Yes, let them say continually, “May the LORD be magnified,who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
The LORD has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. It is said by those who favor the writer's righteous cause, in a psalm about false witnesses.
Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision.Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
A picture of full barns and flocks in the thousands. Verse 15 then calls two groups happy: the people in such a situation, and the people whose God is the LORD.
The psalms are frank about riches. These verses do not condemn having them, but they warn against trusting them.
Don’t trust in oppression.Don’t become vain in robbery.If riches increase,don’t set your heart on them.
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
If riches increase, don't set your heart on them. The verse allows that riches may increase and speaks about where the heart goes.
for when he dies he will carry nothing away.His glory won’t descend after him.
For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
When he dies he will carry nothing away. Psalm 49 is addressed to rich and poor together, according to verse 2.
Better is a little that the righteous has,than the abundance of many wicked.
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Better is a little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked. The comparison puts a little with righteousness above much without it.
For I was envious of the arrogant,when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
The writer admits envying the prosperity of the wicked. The psalm turns in verse 17, and by verse 26 calls God my portion forever.
The practical money lines in the psalms are about honesty and generosity.
The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back,but the righteous give generously.
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
The wicked borrow and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously. The verse judges a borrower by whether they repay.
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.He will maintain his cause in judgment.
A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
It is well with the one who deals graciously and lends. Psalm 112 also says, in verse 3, that wealth and riches are in this person's house.
he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury,nor take a bribe against the innocent.He who does these things shall never be shaken.
He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
The only verse in the psalms that uses the word money. The person who may dwell with God does not lend it out for usury or take a bribe.
Blessed is he who considers the poor.The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Here the blessing goes to the one who notices someone else's need.
The psalms do not use the word breakthrough, and none of them promises a sudden change in money. What they offer is prayer from inside the need. Psalm 40:17 and Psalm 86:1 are the prayers of someone poor and needy. Psalm 118:25 asks for prosperity outright. Psalm 34:6 is the testimony of a poor man who cried out and was heard. These are honest words for a hard month.
No. The psalms are prayers and songs, not charms, and nothing in them says a psalm read a certain way or a certain number of times will bring money. Psalm 62:10 points the other way: if riches increase, don't set your heart on them. What the psalms do say is that God hears the poor, as in Psalm 34:6, and that generosity is blessed, as in Psalm 41:1 and Psalm 112:9.
No psalm promises a breakthrough. Psalm 40:17 is the plainest prayer from financial need: I am poor and needy, may the Lord think about me. Psalm 118:25 asks directly: send prosperity now.
Psalm 15:5 is the only verse in the psalms that uses the word money, and it is about not lending for usury or taking bribes. Psalm 37 and Psalm 112 say the most about wealth, debt and generosity.
Psalm 118:25 and Psalm 122:6 to 7 pray for prosperity, and Psalm 1:3 says of the person who delights in the LORD's law that whatever he does shall prosper. The same book warns in Psalm 62:10 not to set your heart on riches.
Psalm 86:1 asks to be heard because I am poor and needy. Psalm 145:15 to 16 speaks of God giving food in due season and opening his hand.
Psalm 1:3 compares the person who delights in God's law to a tree that bears fruit in its season, and says whatever he does shall prosper. Psalm 90:17 asks God to establish the work of our hands.
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