Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Be merciful to me, O LORD, for to thee do I cry all the day long.

New American Standard Bible

Be gracious to me, O Lord,
For to You I cry all day long.

King James Version

Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.

Holman Bible

Be gracious to me, Lord,
for I call to You all day long.

International Standard Version

Have mercy on me Lord, for I call on you all day long.

American Standard Version

Be merciful unto me, O Lord; For unto thee do I cry all the day long.

Amplified


Be gracious and merciful to me, O Lord,
For to You I cry out all the day long.

Darby Translation

Be gracious unto me, O Lord; for unto thee do I call all the day.

Julia Smith Translation

Compassionate me, O Jehovah, for to thee I will call all the day.

King James 2000

Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto you daily.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Be gracious to me, O Lord, because I call to you {all day long}.

Modern King James verseion

Be merciful to me, O Lord; for I cry to You daily.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Be merciful unto me, O LORD; for I call daily upon thee.

NET Bible

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry out to you all day long!

New Heart English Bible

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

The Emphasized Bible

Show me favour, O My Lord, For, unto thee, do I cry, all the day;

Webster

Be merciful to me, O Lord: for I cry to thee daily.

World English Bible

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

Youngs Literal Translation

Favour me, O Lord, for to Thee I call all the day.

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 86:3

Context Readings

Lament And Petition

2 Preserve my soul, for I am devout. O thou my God, save thy servant who trusts in thee. 3 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for to thee do I cry all the day long. 4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.


Cross References

Psalm 57:1

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge until calamities be passed by.

Psalm 88:9

My eye wastes away because of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth my hands to thee.

Psalm 4:1

Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness. Thou have enlarged me in distress. Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Psalm 25:5

Guide me in thy truth, and teach me. For thou are the God of my salvation. For thee do I wait all the day.

Psalm 56:1

Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me.

Psalm 55:17

Evening, and morning, and at noonday, I will complain and moan. And he will hear my voice.

Luke 2:37

and this woman was a widow to eighty-four years), who did not depart from the temple, serving with fastings and supplications night and day.

Luke 11:8-13

I say to you, though he will not give him, after getting up, because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, having awaken, he will give him as many as he needs.

Luke 18:7

And God, will he, no, not do the vengeance of his chosen who cry out to him day and night, and yet being patient toward them?

Ephesians 6:18

praying through every prayer and entreaty at every time in spirit, and being alert in this same thing in all perseverance and entreaty for all the sanctified,

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