You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
Parallel translations
- WEB You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
- KJV Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
- NKJV You have heard my voice: “Do not hide Your ear From my sighing, from my cry for help.”
- NASB You have heard my voice, “Do not cover Your ear from my plea for relief, From my cry for help.”
- NLT You heard me when I cried, “Listen to my pleading! Hear my cry for help!”
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Quick answer
God heard his cry, and he pleads that God not close His ear to his sighing.
Overview
The poet testifies that Yahweh heard his voice and prays that God keep listening. The assurance that God hears transforms the lament toward confidence. This confidence rests on God's faithful character to attend to the cries of His people, fully vindicated in Christ our great High Priest who ever lives to intercede (Ps. 34:17; Heb. 7:25).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Isa 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
- Job 34:28They caused the cry of the poor to come before Him, and He heard the outcry of the afflicted.
- Ps 6:8–9Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
- Ps 88:13–14But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
- Ps 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
- Ps 55:1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.
- Ps 3:4To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
- 2 Chr 33:13And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
- Ps 116:1–2I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy.
- Rom 8:26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.
- Ps 66:19But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.
- 2 Chr 33:19His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
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Christ at the center
The weeping over a ruined city and the steadfast mercies that are new every morning point to the man of sorrows who wept over Jerusalem and whose mercy rises new from the grave.
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