Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
Parallel translations
- WEB Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
- BSB O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.
- NKJV Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications.
- NASB Lord, hear my voice! Let Your ears be attentive To the sound of my pleadings.
- NLT Hear my cry, O Lord. Pay attention to my prayer.
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Quick answer
He pleads for the Lord to hear and attend to his cries for mercy. It expresses earnest, dependent prayer for God's attentive response.
Overview
The psalmist asks Yahweh to listen and be attentive to his supplications, casting himself wholly on God's mercy. The repetition shows the urgency of one who has nowhere else to turn. Believers can pray with confidence because in Christ God hears and answers His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- 2 Chr 6:40Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
- Ps 61:1–2Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
- Isa 37:17Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
- Neh 1:11O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.
- Ps 140:6I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
- Ps 55:1–2Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
- Neh 1:6Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.
- Dan 9:17–19Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
- Ps 17:1Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
- Ps 64:1Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
- Ps 28:2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
- Ps 5:1–2Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.
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