I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph. My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.
- BSB For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.
- NKJV I cried out to God with my voice— To God with my voice; And He gave ear to me.
- NASB My voice rises to God, and I will cry aloud; My voice rises to God, and He will listen to me.
- NLT I cry out to God; yes, I shout. Oh, that God would listen to me!
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Asaph cries aloud to God for help, longing for God to listen to him.
Overview
This psalm of lament opens with an earnest, persistent cry to God in distress. The repetition stresses the intensity of Asaph's plea for God to hear. Honest, urgent prayer in trouble is modeled here, teaching believers to bring their anguish directly to the God who hears, as supremely demonstrated by Christ's own cries in His suffering.
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Cross-references · 11
- Ps 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
- Ps 142:1–3I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
- Ps 50:1The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
- Ps 39:1I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
- Ps 62:1Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
- Ps 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
- 1 Chr 25:3Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.
- Ps 55:16–17As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.
- 1 Chr 25:6All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
- Ps 116:1–2I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
- 1 Chr 16:41–42And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever;
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