Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

A Prayer of David. Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, Answer me, for I am poor and needy.

New American Standard Bible

A Prayer of David.
Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me;
For I am afflicted and needy.

King James Version

{A Prayer of David.} Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

Holman Bible

A Davidic prayer.Listen, Lord, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.

International Standard Version

LORD, listen and answer me, for I am afflicted and needy.

A Conservative Version

Bow down thine ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

American Standard Version

Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I am poor and needy.

Amplified

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and answer me,
For I am distressed and needy [I long for Your help].

Bible in Basic English

Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.

Darby Translation

{A Prayer of David.} Incline thine ear, Jehovah, answer me; for I am afflicted and needy.

Julia Smith Translation

A prayer to David. Incline, O Jehovah, thine ear: answer me, for I am poor and needy.

King James 2000

[A Prayer of David.] Bow down your ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Incline, O Yahweh, your ear [and] answer me, because I [am] poor and needy.

Modern King James verseion

A Prayer of David. Bow down Your ear, O Jehovah, hear me; for I am poor and needy.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

{A Prayer of David} Bow down thine ear, O LORD, and hear me; for I am comfortless and poor.

NET Bible

A prayer of David. Listen O Lord! Answer me! For I am oppressed and needy.

New Heart English Bible

Hear, LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

The Emphasized Bible

Bow down, O Yahweh, thine ear - answer me, For, oppressed and needy, am I;

Webster

A Prayer of David. Bow down thy ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

World English Bible

Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Context Readings

Lament And Petition

1 A Prayer of David. Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, Answer me, for I am poor and needy. 2 Keep my soul, for I am pious, Save Thy servant -- who is trusting to Thee, O Thou, my God.



Cross References

Psalm 31:2

Incline unto me Thine ear hastily, deliver me, Be to me for a strong rock, For a house of bulwarks to save me.

Psalm 40:17

And I am poor and needy, The Lord doth devise for me. My help and my deliverer art Thou, O my God, tarry Thou not.

Psalm 10:14

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

Psalm 17:6

I -- I called Thee, for Thou dost answer me, O God, incline Thine ear to me, hear my speech.

Psalm 34:6

This poor one called, and Jehovah heard, And from all his distresses saved him.

Psalm 72:12-14

For he delivereth the needy who crieth, And the poor when he hath no helper,

Psalm 102:1

A Prayer of the afflicted when he is feeble, and before Jehovah poureth out his plaint. O Jehovah, hear my prayer, yea, my cry to Thee cometh.

Psalm 102:17

He turned unto the prayer of the destitute, And He hath not despised their prayer.

Psalm 119:22

Remove from me reproach and contempt, For Thy testimonies I have kept.

Psalm 140:12

I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.

Psalm 142:1

An Instruction of David, a Prayer when he is in the cave. My voice is unto Jehovah, I cry, My voice is unto Jehovah, I entreat grace.

Isaiah 37:17

Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes and see; and hear Thou all the words of Sennacherib that he hath sent to reproach the living God.

Isaiah 66:2

And all these My hand hath made, And all these things are, An affirmation of Jehovah! And unto this one I look attentively, Unto the humble and bruised in spirit, And who is trembling at My word.

Daniel 9:18

Incline, O my God, Thine ear, and hear, open Thine eyes and see our desolations, and the city on which Thy name is called; for not for our righteous acts are we causing our supplications to fall before Thee, but for Thy mercies that are many.

Matthew 5:3

Happy the poor in spirit -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

Luke 4:18

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

James 1:9-10

And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation,

James 2:5

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

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