Psalms 55:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 38:14 : 14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
  • Ps 13:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me? 2 How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
  • Ps 64:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.
  • Ps 66:19 : 19 But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.
  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)
  • Ps 102:9-9 : 9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping: 10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.> Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.

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

  • Ps 5:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1 <To the chief music-maker on wind instruments. A Psalm. Of David.> Give ear to my words, O Lord; give thought to my heart-searchings.

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

  • Ps 102:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • Ps 55:16-17
    2 verses
    78%

    16 As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.

    17 In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

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

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

  • 3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • 19 Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.

  • Ps 142:1-2
    2 verses
    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.

    2 I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;

  • 16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

  • 75%

    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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

  • 22 Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

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

  • 19 But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

  • 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

  • 23 Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.

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

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm.> When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.

  • 1 <A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.

  • 17 Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.

  • 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.

  • 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 6:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

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

  • 28 I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.

  • 8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.