It will happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Parallel translations
- KJV And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
- BSB Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
- NKJV “It shall come to pass That before they call, I will answer; And while they are still speaking, I will hear.
- NASB It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; while they are still speaking, I will listen.
- NLT I will answer them before they even call to me. While they are still talking about their needs, I will go ahead and answer their prayers!
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Quick answer
God will answer his people even before they finish calling on him. It matters because it promises intimate, immediate fellowship and the assurance that God hears.
Overview
In the renewed relationship, the distance and delay caused by sin are gone, and God responds with eager nearness. This fulfills the longing for unhindered communion with God expressed throughout Scripture. Through Christ, believers now have confident access to the Father (Ephesians 2:18), a foretaste of this perfect intimacy.
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Cross-references · 13
- Dan 10:12Then he said to me, Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I have come for your words’ sake.
- 1 Jn 5:14–15This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
- Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
- Isa 58:9Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
- Ps 91:15He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
- Ps 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
- Isa 55:6Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
- Acts 4:31When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.
- Acts 10:30–32Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
- Dan 9:20–23While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
- Ps 32:5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
- Luke 15:18–20I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.
- Acts 12:5–16Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
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