Psalms 28:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.”
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“Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 28:2 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 6:5Against the walls of the temple and the inner sanctuary, Solomon built a chambered structure around the temple, in which he constructed the side rooms.
- 1 Kings 6:19Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
- 1 Kings 6:22So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
- 1 Kings 8:6Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
- 1 Kings 8:28Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
- 1 Kings 8:30Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
- 1 Kings 8:38then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
- 2 Chronicles 6:13Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
- Psalms 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
- Psalms 63:4So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
- Psalms 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
- Psalms 130:2O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.
- Psalms 134:2Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
- Psalms 138:2I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.
- Psalms 140:6I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.
- Psalms 141:1I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.
- Psalms 141:2May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
- Psalms 143:6I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
- Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
- Daniel 6:10Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
- Daniel 6:11Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.
- 1 Timothy 2:8Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
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