Psalm 17:1 {16:1}
Good News Translation
Listen, O LORD, to my plea for justice; pay attention to my cry for help! Listen to my honest prayer.

New Revised Standard Version
Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry; give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit.

Contemporary English Version
I am innocent, LORD! Won't you listen as I pray and beg for help? I am honest! Please hear my prayer.

New American Bible
A prayer of David. Hear, LORD, my plea for justice; pay heed to my cry; Listen to my prayer from lips without guile.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.

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2942 B.C.

1062

Psalm 86:1 A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

Psalm 142:1 Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [2] I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

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Psalm 7:8 The Lord judgeth the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice, and according to my innocence in me.

Psalm 18:20 And the Lord will reward me according to my justice; and will repay me according to the cleanness of my hands:

Psalm 43:1 A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.

Psalm 140:12 I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

1 John 3:21 Dearly beloved, if our heart do not reprehend us, we have confidence towards God.

the right [Heb.

Psalm 5:2 Hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God.

Psalm 55:2,3 Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled, . . .

Psalm 61:1 Unto the end, in hymns, for David. [2] Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer.

Psalm 66:19 Therefore hath God heard me, and hath attended to the voice of my supplication.

Psalm 142:6 Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

2 Chronicles 7:15 My eyes also shall be open, and my ears attentive to the prayer of him that shall pray in this place.

Nehemiah 1:6 Let thy ears be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, night and day, for the children of Israel thy servants: and I confess the sins of the children of Israel, by which they have sinned against thee: I and my father's house have sinned.

Daniel 9:18,19 Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear: open thy eyes, and see our desolation, and the city upon which thy name is called: for it is not for our justifications that we present our prayers before thy face, but for the multitude of thy tender mercies. . . .

not [out of feigned lips] [Heb.

Psalm 18:44 A people which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.

Psalm 145:18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: to all that call upon him in truth.

Jeremiah 3:10 And after all this, her treacherous sister Juda hath not returned to me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.

Matthew 15:8 This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.

John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

Context
Hear My Righteous Plea
1The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.2Let my judgment come forth from thy countenance: let thy eyes behold the things that are equitable.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:40
For thou art my God: let thy eyes, I beseech thee, be open, and let thy ears be attentive to the prayer, that is made in this place.

Psalm 9:4
For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.

Psalm 61:1
Unto the end, in hymns, for David. [2] Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer.

Psalm 88:2
Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.

Psalm 142:6
Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:

Psalm 16:11
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