Psalms 102:1

The afflicted psalmist pleads for God to hear his prayer and let his cry reach Him. He turns to God in deep distress.

Cross-references · 28

• Ps 18:6In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
• Ps 130:1–2Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
• Exod 2:23And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
• Ps 142:2–3I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
• Ps 61:2From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
• Ps 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
• Heb 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Luke 22:44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Ps 5:2Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
• Lam 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
• 1 Sam 1:15–16And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
• Ps 143:7Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
• Judg 10:16And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
• Lam 3:44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
• Ps 41:1–2Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
• Ps 143:4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
• 1 Sam 9:16To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
• Ps 69:1–2Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
• 2 Chr 30:27Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
• Ps 55:1–5Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
• Ps 145:19He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
• Ps 62:8Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
• Lam 3:18–20And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
• Ps 12:5For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
• Ps 77:3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
• Mark 14:33–34And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
• Ps 57:1–3Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
• Ps 42:4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

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