Psalm 102:1 {101:1}
Good News Translation
Listen to my prayer, O LORD, and hear my cry for help!

New Revised Standard Version
Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to you.

Contemporary English Version
I pray to you, LORD! Please listen.

New American Bible
The prayer of one afflicted and wasting away whose anguish is poured out before the LORD. [2] LORD, hear my prayer; let my cry come to you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. [2] Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. [2] Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

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3464. B.C. cir

540 A prayer. This psalm was evidently composed towards the close of the Babylonian captivity; and probably by the prophet Daniel.

Psalm 12:5 By reason of the misery of the needy, and the groans of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord. I will set him in safety: I will deal confidently in his regard.

Psalm 61:2 To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me;

Psalm 69:1,2 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David. [2] Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul. . . .

Psalm 142:2,3 In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble: . . .

Psalm 143:4 And my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.

Lamentations 3:18-20 Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from the Lord. . . .

Mark 14:33,34 And he taketh Peter and James and John with him: and he began to fear and to be heavy. . . .

Luke 22:44 And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

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Psalm 42:4 These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.

Psalm 62:8 Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.

Psalm 77:3 I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.

Psalm 142:2 In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:

1 Samuel 1:15,16 Anna answering, said: Not so, my lord: for I am an exceeding unhappy woman, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord. . . .

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

Psalm 55:1-5 Unto the end, in verses, understanding for David. [2] Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication: . . .

Psalm 57:1-3 Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into the cave. [2] Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusteth in thee. And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity pass away. . . .

Psalm 130:1,2 A gradual canticle. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord: . . .

Psalm 41:1,2 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day. . . .

Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Psalm 145:19 He will do the will of them that fear him: and he will hear their prayer, and save them.

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Psalm 18:6 In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears.

Exodus 2:23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.

Judges 10:16 And saying these things, they cast away out of their coasts all the idols of strange gods, and served the Lord their God: and he was touched with their miseries.

1 Samuel 9:16 To morrow about this same hour I will send thee a man of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel: and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked down upon my people, because their cry is come to me.

2 Chronicles 30:27 And the priests and the Levites rose up and blessed the people: and their voice was heard: and their prayer came to the holy dwelling place of heaven.

Lamentations 3:8,44 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer. . . .

Context
The Prayer of the Afflicted
1The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. [2] Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.2Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily.…
Cross References
Exodus 2:23
Now after a long time the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel groaning, cried out because of the works: and their cry went up unto God from the works.

1 Samuel 9:16
To morrow about this same hour I will send thee a man of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be ruler over my people Israel: and he shall save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked down upon my people, because their cry is come to me.

Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

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

Psalm 119:169
Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me understanding according to thy word.

Psalm 142:2
In his sight I pour out my prayer, and before him I declare my trouble:

Psalm 101:8
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