KJV King James Version
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
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Psalm 28:2
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
WEB World English Bible
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
ASV American Standard Version
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Surrounding context — Psalm 28
1 [A Psalm] of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, [if] thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
3 Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts.
4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
שְׁמַ֤עH8085 · sha.mato hear: hearק֣וֹלH6963 · qolvoiceתַּ֭חֲנוּנַיH8469 · ta.cha.nunsupplicationבְּשַׁוְּעִ֣יH7768 · sha.vato cryאֵלֶ֑יךָH413 · elto(wards)בְּנָשְׂאִ֥יH5375 · na.sato lift: raiseיָ֝דַ֗יH3027 · yadhandאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)דְּבִ֥ירH1687 · de.virsanctuaryקָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃H6944 · qo.deshholiness
Cross-references
Psalm 141:2Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.Psalm 138:2I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.Psalm 140:6I said unto the LORD, Thou [art] my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.1 Timothy 2:8I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.Psalm 134:2Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.Psalm 5:7But as for me, I will come [into] thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: [and] in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.Daniel 6:10Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.1 Kings 8:6-8And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy [place, even] under the wings of the cherubims.2 Chronicles 6:13For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,1 Kings 6:22-23And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that [was] by the oracle he overlaid with gold.Psalm 143:6I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.1 Kings 8:28-30Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.Psalm 125:5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.1 Kings 8:38What prayer and supplication soever be [made] by any man, [or] by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:Psalm 63:4Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.1 Kings 6:19And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
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