Psalms 102:17
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Psalms 102:17 in other translations
| BSB | He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer. |
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| WEB | He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer. |
| ASV | He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, And hath not despised their prayer. |
| YLT | He turned unto the prayer of the destitute, And He hath not despised their prayer. |
| DARBY | He will regard the prayer of the destitute one, and not despise their prayer. |
| BBE | When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side. |
| Webster | He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. |
What does Psalms 102:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 102:15-17
15-17. God's favor to the Church will affect her persecutors with fear.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 102:12-22
We are dying creatures, but God is an everlasting God, the protector of his church; we may be confident that it will not be neglected. When we consider our own vileness, our darkness and deadness, and the manifold defects in our prayers, we have cause to fear that they will not be received in heaven; but we are here assured of the contrary, for we have an Advocate with the Father, and are under grace, not under the…
Psalms 102:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 102:17
- Nehemiah 1:6
Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.
- Psalms 22:24
For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
- Psalms 72:12
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
- Psalms 9:18
For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
- Jeremiah 29:11-14
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
- Deuteronomy 4:29
But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
- Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
- Nehemiah 1:11-2:8
O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer. And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire? …
- Daniel 9:3-21
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. …
- Psalms 69:23
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
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Context
- Psalms 102:16
When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
- Psalms 102:17
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
- Psalms 102:18
This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
Psalms 102:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Habrá mirado á la oración de los solitarios, y no habrá desechado el ruego de ellos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Quand l’ Éternel bâtira Sion, il paraîtra dans sa gloire. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er wird sich wenden zum Gebete des Entblößten, und ihr Gebet wird er nicht verachten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Misericordia autem Domini ab æterno, et usque in æternum super timentes eum. Et justitia illius in filios filiorum, |