Psalms 10:17

God hears the desire of the humble, strengthening their hearts and inclining His ear. The lowly who cry to God are truly heard.

Cross-references · 28

• Ps 145:19He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
• 2 Chr 34:27because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against its inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.
• Ps 34:15Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
• 1 Pet 3:12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
• Isa 65:24It will happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
• Ps 37:4Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
• 1 Chr 29:18Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart for you;
• 2 Chr 33:12–13When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
• Jas 1:16–17Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• Ps 9:12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.
• Luke 18:13–14But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• 2 Chr 30:12Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.
• Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Ps 102:17He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
• Prov 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
• Jas 4:6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Prov 10:24What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
• Acts 4:24–31When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;
• Eph 3:12in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
• Jas 4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
• Acts 12:5–19Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Ps 112:7–8He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.
• Ps 9:18For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
• Rom 8:26In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
• Eph 2:18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
• 2 Chr 29:36Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

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