Psalms 66:18

World English Bible (2000)

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 9:31 : 31 We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.
  • Prov 28:9 : 9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
  • Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Jas 4:3 : 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
  • Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
  • Job 36:21 : 21 Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • Prov 15:29 : 29 Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
  • Prov 21:13 : 13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

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  • Ps 66:19-20
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    19 But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

    20 Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me. For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.

  • Ps 130:2-3
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    2 Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

    3 If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

  • 2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

  • 3 Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

  • 6 Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.

  • 6 I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

  • Ps 66:16-17
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    16 Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

    17 I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue.

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    3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

  • 1 Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.

  • 11 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

  • Ps 6:8-9
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    8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

    9 Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

  • 14 if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

  • 18 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

  • 1 An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

  • 13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

  • 1 Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

  • 1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

  • 9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

  • 14 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

  • 32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

  • 6 In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

  • 17 Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

  • 14 Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.

  • 27 He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn't profit me.

  • 29 Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

  • 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

  • 8 "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

  • 2 Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

  • 3 You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

  • 3 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

  • 5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

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    14 Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

    15 For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

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  • 1 Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

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    1 Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide yourself from my supplication.

    2 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

  • 1 In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

  • 2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

  • 17 Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

  • 1 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.

  • 18 Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

  • 23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

  • 6 that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

  • 2 Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.