Verse 2

Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy temple!

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 5:7 : 7 But as for me, because of your great faithfulness I will enter your house; I will bow down toward your holy temple as I worship you.
  • Ps 138:2 : 2 I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have exalted your promise above the entire sky.
  • Ps 141:2 : 2 May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!
  • Ps 134:2 : 2 Lift your hands toward the sanctuary and praise the LORD!
  • 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 So I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.
  • Ps 140:6 : 6 I say to the LORD,“You are my God.” O LORD, pay attention to my plea for mercy!
  • Ps 63:4 : 4 For this reason I will praise you while I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the LORD remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!
  • 1 Kgs 6:19 : 19 He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD could be placed there.
  • 1 Kgs 6:22-23 : 22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary. 23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood; each stood 15 feet high.
  • 1 Kgs 8:6-8 : 6 The priests brought the ark of the LORD’s covenant to its assigned place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, in the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim. 7 The cherubim’s wings extended over the place where the ark sat; the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles. 8 The poles were so long their ends were visible from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. They have remained there to this very day.
  • 1 Kgs 8:28-30 : 28 But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O LORD my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you today. 29 Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant’s prayer for this place. 30 Respond to the request of your servant and your people Israel for this place. Hear from inside your heavenly dwelling place and respond favorably.
  • 1 Kgs 8:38 : 38 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,
  • 2 Chr 6:13 : 13 Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the enclosure. It was seven and one-half feet long, seven and one-half feet wide, and four and one-half feet high. He stood on it and then got down on his knees in front of the entire assembly of Israel. He spread out his hands toward the sky,
  • Ps 143:6 : 6 I spread my hands out to you in prayer; my soul thirsts for you in a parched land.(Selah)
  • Lam 2:19 : 19 ק(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children’s lives; they are fainting from hunger at every street corner.
  • Dan 6:10 : 10 When Daniel realized that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.