Scripture prayers
for the PEOPLES OF THE WORLD
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He will say, “Build up, build up,

prepare the way! Remove the
stumbling-block out of the way
of my people.” ISAIAH 57:14
SCRIPTURE PRAYERS FOR THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD

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 You are inquired of by the ______
who didn’t ask and you are
found by the ______

 who didn’t seek
you. You said,
“See me, see
me,” to the
______ that
were not
called by
your name.
ISAIAH 65:1

I ask you O Lord for

the ______ as my
inheritance and the
uttermost parts of the
earth for my possession.
I lift up my voice with
strength and say to the
cities of the ______,
“Behold, your God!”
PSALM 2:8; ISAIAH 40:9
 


Lord
Most
High, O Lord God!
you are behold, you have
awesome. made the heavens
You are the and the earth by your
great King over great power and by your
the ______. outstretched arm; there is
May the ______ nothing too hard for you.
sing praise to you Show your loving kindness to
for you are King the ______. You are the mighty
of all the earth. You God, the Yahweh of Armies is your
reign over the ______. name. You are great in counsel, and
You sit on your holy mighty in work; let your eyes be open to all
throne. PSALM 47:2, 6-8 the ways of the ______. JEREMIAH 32:17-19
I draw near with boldness to your throne
of grace, that the ______ may receive
mercy, and may find grace for help
in time 
 of need. I build up the wall
and stand in the gap for the land
of the ______, that you O God
should not destroy it. As a
watchman on the walls, All the
I will never be silent day ______ will
nor night. I will take no
worship you, and will sing
rest until you O God make the to you; they will sing to
______ a praise in the earth. your name. Come, and
HEBREWS 4:16; EZEKIEL 22:30;
ISAIAH 62:6,7
see God’s deeds O
______—awesome work
on your behalf. He turned
the sea into dry land.
Rejoice in him for
he rules by his
might forever. His
eyes watch you O
______. Don’t be
rebellious and rise up
against him. PSALM 66:4-7
For your
name’s sake,
Lord God,
pardon 
 the
iniquity of the
______, for
it is great.
PSALM 25:11

Be still O
______ and
know that
Yahweh is God.
He will be exalted
among you. The
earth is the Lord’s
with its fullness; the
world and the ______
who dwell therein. Arise,
God, judge the ______, for
you inherit all of the nations.
PSALMS 46:10; 24:1; 82:8
Arise O ______, shine; for your light has come, and the Lord’s glory has risen on you. For
behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord God
will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. Nations will come to your light, and
kings to
 the brightness of
your rising. Lift up
your eyes O
______ all
around, and see.
May your sons
come from far
away and your
daughters be
carried in
your arms. O God,
See and be engrave the
radiant, let  ______ on
your heart, the palms of
O ______, your hands. 
be thrilled Cause their
and enlarged. destroyers
ISAIAH 60:1-5
and those
who devastated
them to leave.
ISAIAH 49:16-17
 I declare
your glory among

 the ______, your 
marvelous works among
Bless the Lord, my soul.  all the ______. For great
Yahweh, are you Lord, and
my God, greatly to be praised! 
you are You are to be feared
very great.  above all gods. For
You are clothed with you, Lord God, are
honor and most high above all the
majesty. I earth. You are exalted
give thanks far above all gods.
to you, PSALMS 96:3, 4; 97:9
Lord God,
among the ______.
I sing praises to you among the
______. Sing praises to the Lord,
O ______, and declare among
your people what he has done.
PSALMS 104:1; 108:3; 9:11
Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth. For
you, Lord God, are high above all the ______, your glory is above the heavens.
Yes, you, O Lord, are on high forever more. PSALMS 108:5; 113:4; 92:8



I pray that
repentance
and
Let the ______ remission
praise you, of sins
God. Let would be
all the ______ preached
praise you.  in Jesus’
Oh let the name to all
______ be glad the ______.
and sing for joy, for LUKE 24:47
you will judge them
with equity, and
govern the nations
on earth. Let the ______
praise you, God. Let all
the ______ praise you.
PSALM 67:3-5
 O Lord, the Good
News is veiled to
the ______ who

 are perishing, 
in whom the
god of this
world has
blinded their
minds. Cause
May the unbelieving
the ______ to see
______ the light of the
walk in good news of the
the light glory of Christ,
of the Lord. who is the image
May they of God. I pray that
come to the ______ would
know Jesus see Christ Jesus as
as the light Lord. May your light shine 
of the world, out of darkness and into
not walking  their hearts to give the light
in the darkness, of the knowledge of the glory
but having the light of God in the face of Jesus
of life. ISAIAH 2:5; JOHN 8:12 Christ. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:3-6
Lord, you
sent Jesus
as a witness

 about
to testify
the light so that
all the ______
might believe
through him.
He is the light
for revelation
to the ______,
announcing to them
O Lord, bring the blind by a way
that God is light, and in
him is no darkness at all. that they don’t know. Lead the
______ in paths that they don’t
JOHN 1:7; LUKE 2:32; 1 JOHN 1:5
know. Make darkness light before
them and crooked places
straight. Do not forsake
the ______. 
ISAIAH 42:16
I pray that as the ______
walk in the light, they would
have fellowship with one
another, 
 and the blood of
Jesus Christ would cleanse
them from all sin. I pray that
the ______ will not deceive
themselves but accept the
truth. I pray that they
will confess their sins to you
O God, who are faithful
and righteous to forgive
them and cleanse them
from all unrighteousness.
1 JOHN 1:7-9
Father, I ask that you would open the
eyes of the ______, that they may
turn from darkness to light and
from the power of Satan to
God. I pray that the ______
may receive remission of 
sins and an inheritance
among those who are
sanctified by faith in
Jesus. ACTS 26:18
May the ______ sing a new song, Shake the ______ and
saying, “You are worthy to take the fill your house with
book, and to open its seals: for glory, O Yahweh
you were 
 killed, and you bought of Armies.
us for God with your blood, out HAGGAI 2:7
of every tribe, language,
people, and
nation, and
made us
kings and
priests to our
God, and we
will reign on
the earth.”
REVELATION
5:9-10
Lord, feed the ______ like
a shepherd. Gather their
lambs in your arm and


carry them in your bosom.
Gently lead those who
have their young.
ISAIAH 40:11

I pray that the families

of the ______ would
ascribe to you, Lord God,
glory and strength. May
they bring an offering and
come into your courts. Cause
them to worship you in holy array.  
May the ______ tremble before
you. The Lord reigns! The world is
also established. It can’t be moved.
Lord, judge the ______ with equity.
PSALM 96:7-10
 

I ask,
Father, Lord God,
that you cause the
would ______ to
sprinkle come and reason
clean water with you. Though
on the ______ so their sins be as
that they will be clean scarlet, may they
from all their filthiness be as
and from all their idols. white as
Give the ______ a snow. 
new heart and put a Though
new spirit within them. they be
Take away their stony red like crimson, may they be as
hearts and give them  wool. Cause the ______ to be
hearts of flesh. Put willing and obedient so they can eat
your Spirit within the ______, and cause the good of the land. ISAIAH 1:18-19
them to walk in your statutes. May they
keep your ordinances and do them.
EZEKIEL 36:25-27
Father, I pray that the ______ would be called by
your name, that they would humble themselves
and pray, and seek your face, and turn from their
wicked 
 ways; for then you will hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 CHRONICLES 7:14

Lord, I thank you that you will bring

health and a cure to the ______.
Reveal to them abundance of
peace and truth. Bring them
back from captivity and build
them up. Cleanse and pardon
the ______ from all their
iniquities, by which they
have sinned and transgressed
against you. JEREMIAH 33:6-8
 I pray against the principalities, against
the powers, against the world’s rulers
of the darkness of this age, and
O God,
 open to us a door for the against the spiritual forces of
word, to speak the mystery of wickedness in the heavenly
Christ to the ______. Cause places that are warring against
us to lift up our eyes, the ______. I pray that you—
and look at the King of glory—will come in,
fields, and see the Lord strong and mighty,
that they are  the Lord mighty in battle. Lift
white for up your heads, you gates; yes,
harvest lift them up, you everlasting
already. doors, and the King of glory
I Pray will come in. Who is this
that you— King of glory? Yahweh of
the Lord of the Armies is the King of glory!
harvest—will send EPHESIANS 6:12;
out laborers into your PSALM 24:7-10
harvest among the
______.
COLOSSIANS 4:3;
JOHN 4:35;
MATTHEW 9:37-38
Father, in your love for the souls
of the ______, deliver them from
the pit of corruption. Cast all

 behind your back. I
their sins
praise you that you have
swallowed up death forever!
You Lord God will wipe away
tears from off all faces. You will
take the reproach of the ______
away from off all the earth, for
you Lord God have spoken it.
ISAIAH 38:17; 25:8

I thank you, Lord God, that the blood of

Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without defect to God, can
cleanse the ______ conscience from dead
works to serve the living God. HEBREWS 9:14
There is no one like you, Lord God;
you are great, and your name I pray that all the ______ will
is great in might among the remember and turn to


______. Who should not you, Lord God. May
fear you, King of the all the ______
______? For glory  worship before
belongs to you; you. For the
because kingdom of
among all the ______
the wise is yours. 
men You are
of the
the ruler
______, and over the
in all their ______.
royal estate, PSALM 22:27-28
there is no one
like you.
JEREMIAH 10:6, 7
 I pray that the
______ will
not hurt nor

 destroy in all
your holy
I pray that the mountain; for
______ will come the earth will
and worship be full of the
before you, knowledge of
Lord. May they the Lord, as the
glorify your waters cover the
name for you sea. Let your
are great, and Kingdom come
do wondrous among the ______.
things. You are Let your will be done,
God alone. as in heaven, so on
PSALM 86:9-10 earth. ISAIAH 11:9;
MATTHEW 6:10
I pray that the ______, who live in the land of the shadow of death, will see you, Lord God,
their glory and everlasting light. May the ______ who sit in darkness see a great light, for
on them your light has dawned. ISAIAH 9:2; 60:19-20; MATTHEW 4:16



For the ______ are a chosen

race, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, a people for your own
possession. May they proclaim
your excellence, for you have
called them out of darkness
into your marvelous light. 
1 PETER 2:9
I pray that the ______ will not be afraid or ashamed.
Prevent them from being confounded or disappointed in
their search for you. Cause them to forget the shame of


their youth and reproach of widowhood. May the ______
know you, their Maker, as husband—Yahweh
of Armies is your name. You are the Holy One and
Redeemer of the ______. Although once forsaken and
grieved in spirit, as a wife of youth, when she is cast off,
now gather the ______ with great mercies. Although in
overflowing wrath you once hid your face from the
______, now with everlasting loving kindness have
mercy on them, O Yahweh Redeemer. ISAIAH 54:4-8

Lord, I speak comfort to the ______ and call out

to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her
iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of
your hand double for all her sins. ISAIAH 40:1-2
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