Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.
Parallel translations
- KJV Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
- BSB Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I pray.
- NKJV Give heed to the voice of my cry, My King and my God, For to You I will pray.
- NASB Listen to the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God, For to You I pray.
- NLT Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for I pray to no one but you.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 65:2You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.
- Ps 3:4I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
- Ps 145:1A praise psalm by David. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever.
- Isa 33:22For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
- Ps 84:3Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.
- Ps 74:12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.
- Ps 99:1–4Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.
- Ps 24:7–8Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
- Ps 44:4You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
- Ps 47:6–7Sing praises to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
- Ps 10:16Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
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