Psalms 28:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 5:7 : 7 But as for me, I will come into your house, in the full measure of your mercy; and in your fear I will give worship, turning my eyes to your holy Temple.
  • Ps 138:2 : 2 I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.
  • Ps 141:2 : 2 Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.
  • Ps 134:2 : 2 Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.
  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.
  • Ps 140:6 : 6 I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.
  • Ps 63:4 : 4 So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for such as are turned out of the straight way, the Lord will take them away with the workers of evil. Let peace be on Israel.
  • 1 Kgs 6:19 : 19 And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 6:22-23 : 22 Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold). 23 In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;
  • 1 Kgs 8:6-8 : 6 And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones. 7 For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods. 8 The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place, in front of the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside: and there they are to this day.
  • 1 Kgs 8:28-30 : 28 Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant, O Lord God, and to his prayer for grace; give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant sends up to you this day; 29 That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place. 30 Give ear to the prayers of your servant, and the prayers of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear in heaven your living-place, and hearing, have mercy.
  • 1 Kgs 8:38 : 38 Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:
  • 2 Chr 6:13 : 13 (For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)
  • Ps 143:6 : 6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)
  • Lam 2:19 : 19 Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
  • Dan 6:10 : 10 For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    1 <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.

  • Ps 141:1-2
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

    2 Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.

  • Ps 30:8
    79%

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

  • Ps 134:2
    77%

    2 Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.

  • Ps 102:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    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 130:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    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 142:1
    77%

    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.

  • Ps 5:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

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

    3 My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.

  • Ps 88:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    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:

  • Ps 27:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

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

    8 When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

  • Ps 18:6
    76%

    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.

  • Ps 61:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    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 28:6
    76%

    6 May the Lord be praised, because he has given ear to the voice of my prayer.

  • Ps 31:22
    75%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 22:7
    75%

    7 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 to his ears.

  • Ps 3:4
    75%

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

  • Ps 140:6
    75%

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

  • Ps 17:6
    74%

    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.

  • Ps 88:9
    74%

    9 My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

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    73%

    7 I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.

  • Ps 143:6
    73%

    6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

  • Ps 54:2
    73%

    2 Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

  • Lam 3:56
    73%

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

  • 1 Kgs 8:28
    73%

    28 Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant, O Lord God, and to his prayer for grace; give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant sends up to you this day;

  • Job 30:20
    73%

    20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.

  • Lam 3:41
    73%

    41 Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.

  • Ps 17:1
    73%

    1 <A Prayer. Of David.> 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.

  • Ps 123:1
    73%

    1 <A Song of the going up.> To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.

  • Ps 25:1
    73%

    1 <Of David.> To you, O Lord, my soul is lifted up.

  • Ps 120:1
    72%

    1 <A Song of the going up.> In my trouble my cry went up to the Lord, and he gave me an answer.

  • Ps 4:1
    72%

    1 <To the chief music-maker on corded instruments. A Psalm. Of David.> Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.

  • Ps 30:2
    72%

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

  • Ps 77:1
    72%

    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 6:9
    72%

    9 The Lord has given ear to my request; the Lord has let my prayer come before him.

  • Ps 30:10
    72%

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

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    72%

    2 Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

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    72%

    6 O Lord, give ear to my prayer; and take note of the sound of my requests.

  • Ps 22:2
    71%

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

  • Jonah 2:4
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    4 For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

  • Ps 39:12
    71%

    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.

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    71%

    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.

  • Ps 9:13
    71%

    13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

  • Lam 3:8
    71%

    8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.