Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for I pray to no one but you.
Parallel translations
- WEB Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.
- 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.
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Quick answer
David cries to the Lord as his King and his God, the one to whom he prays. Prayer flows from a personal relationship with the sovereign God.
Overview
Addressing God as 'my King and my God' joins reverence for His majesty with the intimacy of belonging to Him. David directs his prayer to no other; the Lord alone is his hope. To know God as both King and one's own God is the privilege of every believer brought near in Christ.
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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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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