Psalms 28:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

<Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 18:2 : 2 The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
  • Ps 83:1 : 1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.
  • Ps 143:7 : 7 Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
  • Ps 88:4-6 : 4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: 5 My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
  • Ps 35:22 : 22 You have seen this, O Lord; be not unmoved: O Lord, be not far from me.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.
  • Ps 42:9 : 9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
  • Ps 69:15 : 15 Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.
  • Ps 77:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
  • Ps 22:2 : 2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?
  • Job 33:28 : 28 He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.
  • Ps 3:4 : 4 I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.)
  • Ps 5:2 : 2 Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.
  • Ps 142:1 : 1 <Maschil. Of David. A prayer when he was in the hole of the rock.> The sound of my cry went up to the Lord; with my voice I made my prayer for grace to the Lord.
  • Isa 26:4 : 4 Let your hope be in the Lord for ever: for the Lord Jah is an unchanging Rock.
  • Isa 38:18 : 18 For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.
  • Rev 20:3 : 3 And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.

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    8 My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.

  • Ps 28:2
    80%

    2 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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    1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.

  • Ps 130:1-2
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    79%

    1 <A Song of the going up.> Out of the deep have I sent up my cry to you, O Lord.

    2 Lord, let my voice come before you: let your ears be awake to the voice of my prayer.

  • Ps 22:1-2
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    1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

    2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

  • Ps 102:1-2
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    1 <A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord.> Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.

    2 Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.

  • Ps 5:2
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    2 Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.

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  • Ps 61:1-2
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    77%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. On a corded instrument. Of David.> Let my cry come to you, O God; let your ears be open to my prayer.

    2 From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

  • Ps 88:1-2
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    1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

    2 Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:

  • Lam 3:56
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    56 My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.

  • Ps 31:2
    77%

    2 Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

  • Job 30:20
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    20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

  • Ps 42:9
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    9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • Ps 27:7
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    7 O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.

  • Ps 3:4
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    4 I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.)

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    6 Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

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    6 In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

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    10 Give ear to me, O Lord, and have mercy on me: Lord, be my helper.

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    75%

    6 My cry has gone up to you, for you will give me an answer, O God: let your ear be turned to me, and give attention to my words.

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    74%

    6 I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.

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    74%

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    14 Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

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    74%

    2 O Lord my God, I sent up my cry to you, and you have made me well.

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  • Ps 31:22
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    22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

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    3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

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    6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

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    4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: