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

Be attentive to the voice of my cry, My king and my God, For unto Thee I pray habitually.

Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,

To the Overseer, on stringed instruments. -- By David. Hear, O God, my loud cry, attend to my prayer.

But God hath heard, He hath attended to the voice of my prayer.

Attend Thou unto my loud cry, For I have become very low, Deliver Thou me from my pursuers, For they have been stronger than I.

'Now, Mine eyes are open, and Mine ears attentive, to the prayer of this place;

let Thine ear be, I pray Thee, attentive, and Thine eyes open, to hearken unto the prayer of Thy servant, that I am praying before Thee to-day, by day and by night, concerning the sons of Israel Thy servants, and confessing concerning the sins of the sons of Israel, that we have sinned against Thee; yea, I and the house of my father have sinned;

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.

Not out of feigned lips

At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me, Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me,

And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of Jehovah.'

This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;

Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, 'Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'

General references

Hear, O Jehovah, my prayer, And attend to the voice of my supplications.