O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.
Parallel translations
- WEB You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.
- KJV O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
- NKJV O You who hear prayer, To You all flesh will come.
- NASB You who hear prayer, To You all mankind comes.
- NLT for you answer our prayers. All of us must come to you.
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Quick answer
God is the One who hears prayer, so all people will come to Him. It celebrates God as the universal hearer of prayer.
Overview
David names God as the One who hears prayer and anticipates that all flesh will come to Him. This points beyond Israel toward the nations, hinting at God's worldwide purpose. In Christ this is fulfilled as people from every nation draw near to God through Him who ever lives to intercede.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Jer 29:12–13Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
- Isa 65:24Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
- Isa 66:23From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.
- 1 Jn 5:14–15And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
- Ps 66:19But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.
- Ps 86:9All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.
- Ps 145:18–19The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
- Acts 10:31and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your gifts to the poor have been remembered before God.
- Luke 11:9–10So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
- Dan 9:17–19So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.
- 2 Chr 33:13And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
- Ps 66:4All the earth bows down to You; they sing praise to You; they sing praise to Your name.” Selah
- 1 Kgs 18:37Answer me, O LORD! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again.”
- Ps 102:17He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.
- Isa 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
- John 12:32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”
- Rev 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”
- 1 Kgs 18:29Midday passed, and they kept on raving until the time of the evening sacrifice. But there was no response; no one answered, no one paid attention.
- Ps 22:27All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
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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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