Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Parallel translations
- WEB You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
- BSB You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
- 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 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
- Job 34:28So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
- Ps 6:8–9Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
- Ps 88:13–14But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
- Ps 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
- Ps 55:1Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
- Ps 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
- 2 Chr 33:13And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
- Ps 116:1–2I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
- Rom 8:26Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
- Ps 66:19But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
- 2 Chr 33:19His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings 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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