Scriptures to Pray Against Abortion

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Charles Patrick writes that Molech, as described in the Old Testament, was an “Ammonite god who required propitiatory child sacrifice. A couple sacrificed their firstborn by burning the child on a metal idol of Molech, believing that Molech would ensure financial prosperity for the family and future children.”¹ By offering up their children to be burned on the golden statue, the Canaanites believed Molech would cause them and their future children to prosper.

Today’s Molech is the abortion industry, sacrificing babies to the idol of financial greed. We are no better than the ancient Canaanites. Instead of sacrificing our children to the god Molech in exchange for future prosperity, we sacrifice our children in the name of convenience.

God hates this wickedness. And He has something to say about it.

This post is a selection of scriptures intended to be prayed and proclaimed out loud publicly, against the wickedness of abortion. While God expects us to use every lawful means of ending abortion, the Christian must also remember that “For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds” (2 Corinthians 10:4). God’s Word is powerful. We must be armed with it and we must be ready to use it against God’s enemies— “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12).

Included also is a selection of scriptures intended to embolden you, dear Christian, in the Lord as you confront wickedness. For if God is with us, who can be against us?

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¹ https://swbts.edu/news/releases/modern-day-molech/

Scriptures against the abominable practice of child sacrifice and its wicked practitioners

The 10 Commandments

  1. God spoke all these words, saying, “I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me.
  2. “You shall not make for yourselves an idol.
  3. “You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
  4. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. You shall labor six days, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God.
  5. “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  6. “You shall not murder.
  7. “You shall not commit adultery.
  8. “You shall not steal.
  9. “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor."
  10. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Against the Shedding of Innocent Blood

Proverbs 6:16‒19  There are six things which the LORD hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief, a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.


Isaiah 59:2‒ 4, 7‒8

For your hands are defiled with blood,

and your fingers with iniquity.

Your lips have spoken lies.

Your tongue mutters wickedness.

No one sues in righteousness,

and no one pleads in truth.

They trust in vanity,
 and speak lies.

They conceive mischief, 
and give birth to iniquity.



Their feet run to evil,
 and they hurry to shed innocent blood.

Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.

Desolation and destruction are in their paths. 

They do not know the way of peace; 

and there is no justice in their ways.

They have made crooked paths for themselves;
 whoever goes in them does not know peace.



Genesis 4:10‒12  The LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground. Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. . . you will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth.”



Deuteronomy 27:24  ‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


Deuteronomy 27:25  ‘Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’


Deuteronomy 24:16  Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.


Jeremiah 22:3  Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Exodus 23:7  Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

Jeremiah 22:17  But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.


Psalm 106:36‒39 
They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;

they poured out innocent blood,

the blood of their sons and daughters,

whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,

and the land was polluted with blood.

Thus they became unclean by their acts,

and played the whore in their deeds.


Against Molech

Leviticus 18:21, 24‒25  You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord. . . Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 20:2‒5  The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech. 


Jeremiah 32:33‒35  They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction. They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

Against the Wicked

Psalm 5:5‒6 , 10

The boastful shall not stand before your eyes;

you hate all evildoers. 

You destroy those who speak lies;

the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. . . .


Make then bear their guilt, O God; 

let them fall by their own counsels; 

because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out,
for they have rebelled against you.



Psalm 10:13‒15

Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, 
“You will not call to account”?

But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, 
that you may take it into your hands;

to you the helpless commits himself; 
you have been the helper of the fatherless.

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; 
call his wickedness to account till you find none.



Psalm 11:5‒7

The Lord tests the righteous, 
but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence. 

Let him rain coals on the wicked; 
fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

For the Lord is righteous; 
he loves righteous deeds; 
the upright shall behold his face.








Psalm 17:10‒13

They close their hearts to pity; 
with their mouths they speak arrogantly.

They have now surrounded our steps;

they set their eyes to cast us to the ground.

He is like a lion eager to tear, 
as a young lion lurking in ambush.

Arise, O Lord! Confront him, subdue him! 
Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword.



Psalm 58

Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? 
Do you judge the children of man uprightly?

No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; 
your hands deal out violence on earth.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; t
hey go astray from birth, speaking lies.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent, 
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.


O God, break the teeth in their mouths; 
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

Let them vanish like water that runs away; 
when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, 
like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, 
whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; 
he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; 
surely there is a God who judges on earth.”



Psalm 59:12‒13

For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,

let them be trapped in their pride.

For the cursing and lies that they utter,

consume them in wrath;

consume them till they are no more,

that they may know that God rules over Jacob
to the ends of the earth



Psalm 69:22‒25
Let their own table before them become a snare;

and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,

and make their loins tremble continually.

Pour out your indignation upon them,

and let your burning anger overtake them.

May their camp be a desolation;

let no one dwell in their tents.



Psalm 83:13‒18

O my God, make them like whirling dust,

like chaff before the wind.

As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

so may you pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your hurricane!

Fill their faces with shame,

that they may seek your name, O Lord.
Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;

let them perish in disgrace,
 that they may know that you alone,

whose name is the Lord, 
are the Most High over all the earth.



Psalm 94

O LORD God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth! 

Rise up, O Judge of the earth; Render punishment to the proud.

LORD, how long will the wicked,

How long will the wicked triumph? 

They utter speech, and speak insolent things;

All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves. 

They break in pieces Your people, O LORD,

And afflict Your heritage. 

They slay the widow and the stranger,

And murder the fatherless. 

Yet they say, "The LORD does not see,

Nor does the God of Jacob understand."



Understand, you senseless among the people;

And you fools, when will you be wise?

He who planted the ear, shall He not hear?

He who formed the eye, shall He not see? 

He who instructs the nations, shall He not correct,

He who teaches man knowledge? 

The LORD knows the thoughts of man,

That they are futile.



Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O LORD,

And teach out of Your law, 
That You may give him rest from the days of adversity,

Until the pit is dug for the wicked.

For the LORD will not cast off His people,

Nor will He forsake His inheritance.

But judgment will return to righteousness,

And all the upright in heart will follow it.



Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?

Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? 

Unless the LORD had been my help,

My soul would soon have settled in silence.

If I say, "My foot slips,"

Your mercy, O LORD, will hold me up. 

In the multitude of my anxieties within me,

Your comforts delight my soul. 

Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law,

Have fellowship with You? 

They gather together against the life of the righteous,

And condemn innocent blood.

But the LORD has been my defense,

And my God the rock of my refuge. 

He has brought on them their own iniquity,

And shall destroy them in their own wickedness;

The LORD our God shall wipe them out.



Proverbs 15:8‒9

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
but he loves him who pursues righteousness.



Isaiah 5:20  Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed and observes all My statutes and practices justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live. Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? 


Pursue Justice

Deuteronomy 16:20  Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 


Deuteronomy 32:4  
For I will proclaim the name of the Lord;
ascribe greatness to our God!
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.



Psalms 33:5
  The LORD loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of His unfailing love.



Isaiah 1:16­–18  
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.  



Amos 5:15
  Hate evil, love good, And establish justice in the gate!
Perhaps the LORD God of hosts may be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.



Micah 6:8  
He has shown you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justly, To love mercy,
And to walk humbly with your God?



Matthew 12:18  Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, the One I love, in whom I delight; I will put my Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.


Destroy Idols

Leviticus 26:30   And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.”



Numbers 33:50–52  On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.’”



Isaiah 21:6–9  For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman; let him announce what he sees . . . . Then he who saw cried out: “Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights. And behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!” And he answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.”



Isaiah 30:20–22  And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!”



Ezekiel 6:6  “In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.”



Zechariah 13:2  “It will come about in that day,” declares the LORD of hosts, “that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.”


Be of Good Courage

Joshua 1:9  Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.



1 Samuel 14:6  Then Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us. For nothing restrains the Lord from saving by many or by few.”



Psalm 27:1–3, 14
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
 The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
 When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh,
my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.
 Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear;
 though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.

Wait for the Lord; 
be strong, and let your heart take courage;
 wait for the Lord!



Psalm 31:24  Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD.



Psalm 60:11–12  
Give us help from trouble, For the help of man is useless.
 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies. 



Luke 18:1b  Men ought always to pray and not lose heart.



2 Timothy 1:7  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.


Yahweh

Exodus 34:6–8  “The Lord! The Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”



Psalm 113

Praise the Lord!

Praise, O servants of the Lord,
praise the name of the Lord!

Blessed be the name of the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore!

From the rising of the sun to its setting,
the name of the Lord is to be praised!

The Lord is high above all nations,
and his glory above the heavens!

Who is like the Lord our God,

who is seated on high,
who looks far down
on the heavens and the earth?

He raises the poor from the dust

and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

to make them sit with princes,

with the princes of his people.

He gives the barren woman a home,

making her the joyous mother of children.

Praise the Lord!


Appendix: Praying Psalms of Destruction

The following imprecatory prayers were written by Pastor Stephen Altrogge. I encourage you to pray along with him, and perhaps practice writing your own.

Psalm 10:15, “Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.”

  • Rise up, O Lord. Break the arm of Planned Parenthood. Reduce their strength to nothing. Obliterate their reach and protect the unborn from their grasp. Call the men and women to give an account for their wicked deeds until their wickedness is no more.

Psalm 17:13, “Arise, O Lord! Confront him, subdue him! Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword…”

  • Draw your sword, O Lord, and raise it against the men and women who are executing children. Confront them with the furious anger you feel over the death of these innocent children. Subdue them by your power. Deliver the children from the wicked men and women who are seeking to kill them.

Psalm 58:6–8, “O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord! Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted. Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime…”

  • Lord, we pray that you would tear out the fangs of Planned Parenthood. Emasculate their power. Break the teeth they use to consume the children. Let their arrows of death be dull and useless. Dissolve them financially, and cause them to vanish organizationally. Bring them to utter nothingness so that we will look back and say, “Remember what God did?”

Psalm 59:13, “… consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, that they may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth.”

  • Arise, Lord, and display your powerful, evil-consuming wrath. Bring Planned Parenthood to such utter dissolution that there is no doubt that you are God and that you rule over all things. Let there be no doubt that you are king, and you will bring your good plans to pass.

Psalm 69:25–26, “May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.”

  • Lord, let the buildings of Planned Parenthood be utterly desolated. May the abortion clinics be empty shells, a reminder of what once was and what you have wrought. Bring famine and drought upon all abortion clinics so that they can no longer survive.

Psalm 83:16, “Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Lord.”

  • We pray that the men and women of Planned Parenthood would experience a deep, searing shame for their atrocities IN ORDER that they might seek your face. As you dissolve Planned Parenthood, drive the employees to the cross so that they might embrace the forgiveness you offer.