Psalm 17:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

{A Prayer of David.} Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Attend

Not out of feigned lips

General references

Psalm 86:6

Bible References

Attend

O hearken thou unto the voice of my petition, my King and my God; for unto thee will I make my prayer.

Take heed unto me, and hear me, how piteously I mourn and complain.

{To the Chanter, upon Neginoth, of David} Hear my crying, O God, give heed unto my prayer.

But God hath heard me; and considered the voice of my prayer.

Consider my complaint, for I am brought very low. O deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Thereto mine eyes shall be open and mine ears attent unto the prayers made in this place.

Let thine ears mark and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray now before thee day and night for the children of Israel thy servants, and knowledge the sins of the children of Israel, which we have committed against thee. And I and my father's house have sinned also.

O my God, incline thine ear, and hearken; at the least for thine own sake, open thine eyes. Behold how we be desolated: yea, and the city also, which is called after thy name. For we do not cast our prayers before thee in our own righteousnesses, no, but only in thy great mercies.

Not out of feigned lips

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me, but the strange children dissemble with me. {TYNDALE: And the aliens crouched unto me, and obeyed me at a word.}

Nevertheless, her unfaithful sister Judah is not turned unto me again with her whole heart, but feignedly, sayeth the LORD."

'This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouths, and honoureth me with their lips, howbeit their hearts are far from me:

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold a right Israelite, in whom is no guile."

General references

Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer, and ponder the voice of my humble desires.