Psalms 86:6
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and attend to my plea for mercy.
BSB
ASV
Give ear, O Jehovah, unto my prayer; And hearken unto the voice of my supplications.
KJV
Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
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.
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Psalms 55:1Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.
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Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Hear, O God, my voice of complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.
Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
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Psalms 17:1Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer— it comes from lips free of deceit.
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Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
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Psalms 130:2O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.
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Now, my God, may Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.
Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer.
Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer. Even the glory which his spirit had beheld did not withdraw him from his prayer, but rather urged him to be more fervent in it; hence he implores the Lord to hear his requests. Attend to the voice of my supplications. Here are repetitions, but not vain repetitions. When a child cries it repeats the same note, but it is equally in earnest every time, and so was it with the suppliant here.
1834–1892
WHEN I was reading this eighty-sixth Psalm, I reminded you that the title of it is "A prayer of David." It is rightly named "A prayer," for it is very especially filled with supplication. There are four other Psalms each called by the name Tephillah, or "prayer," but this deserves to be distinguished from the rest and known as "the prayer of David," even as the ninetieth Psalm is known as "the prayer of Moses." It savors of David.
