Psalms 17:1

David prays for God to hear his just plea offered from sincere lips. It matters because the righteous can appeal to God with honest, undeceitful prayer.

Cross-references · 21

• Ps 142:6Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.
• Ps 61:1For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David. Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.
• Dan 9:18–19My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
• Ps 145:18Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
• Matt 15:8‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
• 1 Jn 3:21Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
• Ps 66:19But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.
• Ps 86:1A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
• Ps 7:8Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
• 2 Chr 7:15Now my eyes will be open my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.
• Isa 29:13The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
• Ps 140:12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
• Ps 18:20Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
• Ps 43:1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
• Ps 5:2Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.
• Ps 142:1A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
• Ps 55:2–3Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
• Neh 1:6Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.
• John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
• Ps 18:44As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
• Jer 3:10Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

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