Psalms 17:1

WEB

¹Hear, LORD, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

KJV

¹Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

BSB

¹Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer— it comes from lips free of deceit.

FBV

¹Lord, please hear my cry for justice! Please pay attention to my call for help! Listen to the prayer of an honest man!

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Psalms 142:6

⁶Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

¹⁸My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake. ¹⁹Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

Psalms 145:18

¹⁸The LORD is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Matthew 15:8

⁸‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

1 John 3:21

²¹Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Psalms 66:19

¹⁹But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

Psalms 7:8

⁸The LORD administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Isaiah 29:13

¹³The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Psalms 18:20

²⁰The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.