Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.
- BSB May my plea come before You; rescue me according to Your promise.
- NKJV Let my supplication come before You; Deliver me according to Your word.
- NASB Let my pleading come before You; Save me according to Your word.
- NLT Listen to my prayer; rescue me as you promised.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 119:41Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, according to your word.
- Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
- 2 Sam 7:25Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.
- Gen 32:9–12Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
- Ps 89:20–25I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
- Ps 31:2Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
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