Psalms 86:1

David asks God to hear and answer because he is poor and needy. Humble dependence is the right posture for prayer.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 31:2Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.
• Ps 40:17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
• Dan 9:18My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
• Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Ps 34:6This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
• Jas 1:9–10But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• Isa 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
• Ps 119:22Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.
• Isa 37:17Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
• Ps 102:17He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
• Ps 142:1A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer. I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.
• Ps 17:6I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.
• Ps 140:12I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.
• Ps 72:12–14For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.
• Ps 102:1A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh. Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.
• Ps 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

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