Psalm 88:2 {87:3}
Good News Translation
Hear my prayer; listen to my cry for help!

New Revised Standard Version
let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

Contemporary English Version
please listen carefully to each of my concerns.

New American Bible
Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Psalm 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.

Psalm 141:1,2 I have cried to thee, O Lord, hear me: hearken to my voice, when I cry to thee. . . .

1 Kings 8:31 If any man trespass against his neighbour, and have an oath upon him, wherewith he is bound, and come, because of the oath, before thy altar, to thy house,

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

Context
Day and Night I Cry Out Before You
1A canticle of a psalm for the sons of Core: unto the end, for Maheleth, to answer understanding of Eman the Ezrahite. [2] O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day, and in the night before thee. 2Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.3For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.…
Cross References
Psalm 17:1
The prayer of David. Hear, O Lord, my justice: attend to my supplication. Give ear unto my prayer, which proceedeth not from deceitful lips.

Psalm 17:6
I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast heard me: O incline thy ear unto me, and hear my words.

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.

Psalm 31:2
Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.

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

Psalm 88:1
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