Psalms 27:7
Hear, O LORD, my voice when I call; be merciful and answer me.
BSB
ASV
Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
KJV
Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice. The pendulum of spirituality swings from prayer to praise. The voice which in the last verse was tuned to music is here turned to crying. As a good soldier, David knew how to handle his weapons, and found himself much at home with the weapon of "all prayer." Note his anxiety to be heard. Pharisees care not a fig for the Lord's hearing them, so long as they are heard of men, or charm their own pride with their sounding devotions; but with a genuine man, the Lord's ear is everything.
Still pressing need extorts prayer for help. cry with my voice--denotes earnestness. Other things equal, Christians in earnest pray audibly, even in secret.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 4:1Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
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He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
Turn to me and show me mercy, as You do to those who love Your name.
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Psalms 13:3Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
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But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage,…
For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
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Psalms 5:2Attend to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I pray.
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O You who listen to prayer, all people will come to You.
