Psalm 17:1 “Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my pray…”

Psalm 17:1

Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer— it comes from lips free of deceit.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Hear, LORD, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

American Standard Version

Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Geneva Bible 1599

The prayer of Dauid. Heare the right, O Lord, consider my crye: hearken vnto my prayer of lips vnfained.

Darby Translation

Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, which is not out of feigned lips.

Young's Literal Translation

A Prayer of David. Hear, O Jehovah, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear [to] my prayer, without lips of deceit.

Bible in Basic English

Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

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Cross references

“A. M. 2942. B.C. 1062. (Title.)”

Psalm 86:1 Psalm 142:1

Psalm 86:1 · BSB

Incline Your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Psalm 142:1 · BSB

I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift my voice to the LORD for mercy.

“Hear”

1 John 3:21 Psalm 7:8 Psalm 18:20 Psalm 43:1 Psalm 140:12

1 John 3:21 · BSB

Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God,

Psalm 7:8 · BSB

The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.

Psalm 18:20 · BSB

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

Psalm 43:1 · BSB

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.

Psalm 140:12 · BSB

I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.

“attend”

Psalm 142:6 Psalm 61:1 Psalm 66:19 2 Chronicles 7:15 Psalm 5:2 Nehemiah 1:6

Psalm 142:6 · BSB

Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.

Psalm 61:1 · BSB

Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.

Psalm 66:19 · BSB

But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.

2 Chronicles 7:15 · BSB

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

Psalm 5:2 · BSB

Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I pray.

Nehemiah 1:6 · BSB

let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You…

“not out of feigned lips”

Psalm 145:18 Matthew 15:8 Psalm 18:44 John 1:47 Jeremiah 3:10

Psalm 145:18 · BSB

The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

Matthew 15:8 · BSB

‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

Psalm 18:44 · BSB

When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.

John 1:47 · BSB

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

Jeremiah 3:10 · BSB

Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.

Also

Isaiah 29:13

Isaiah 29:13 · BSB

Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right.

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