Psalm 28:2 “Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my h…”

Psalm 28:2

Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

World English Bible

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

American Standard Version

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Geneva Bible 1599

Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle.

Darby Translation

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.

Young's Literal Translation

Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Bible in Basic English

Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

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Cross references

“when”

Psalm 141:2 1 Timothy 2:8 Psalm 134:2 Psalm 63:4 Psalm 125:5 Psalm 143:6

Psalm 141:2 · BSB

May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.

1 Timothy 2:8 · BSB

Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.

Psalm 134:2 · BSB

Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!

Psalm 63:4 · BSB

So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.

Psalm 125:5 · BSB

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

Psalm 143:6 · BSB

I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

“thy holy oracle”

Psalm 138:2 Psalm 5:7 Daniel 6:10 1 Kings 6:19 1 Kings 8:6–8 1 Kings 8:28–30

Psalm 138:2 · BSB

I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.

Psalm 5:7 · BSB

But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.

Daniel 6:10 · BSB

Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to h…

1 Kings 6:19 · BSB

Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

1 Kings 8:6–8 · BSB

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

1 Kings 8:28–30 · BSB

Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.

Also

Psalm 140:6 Lamentations 2:19

Psalm 140:6 · BSB

I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.

Lamentations 2:19 · BSB

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corn…

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

In context

1To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

3Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

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