The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
- BSB The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.
- NKJV The Lord has heard my supplication; The Lord will receive my prayer.
- NASB The Lord has heard my pleading, The Lord receives my prayer.
- NLT The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord will answer my prayer.
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Quick answer
David declares with confidence that the Lord has heard his supplication and accepts his prayer. Assurance of answered prayer settles the troubled heart.
Overview
Repeating his confidence for emphasis, David affirms that God has heard and received his plea. The same God who seemed distant in his anguish is now known to be attentive and gracious. This certainty rests on God's faithful character and assures believers that their prayers, offered through Christ, are heard and accepted.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 66:19–20But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
- Ps 120:1In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
- 2 Cor 12:8–10For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
- Ps 118:5I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
- Ps 40:1–2I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
- Ps 138:3In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
- Jonah 2:7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
- 2 Cor 1:10–11Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
- Ps 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
- Jonah 2:2And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
- Ps 116:1–2I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
- Ps 31:22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
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