Psalms 28:2
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Psalms 28:2 in other translations
| BSB | 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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| WEB | Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place. |
| ASV | Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. |
| YLT | Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle. |
| DARBY | Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness. |
| BBE | Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place. |
| Webster | Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to thee, when I lift my hands towards thy holy oracle. |
What does Psalms 28:2 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 28:1-5
David is very earnest in prayer. Observe his faith in prayer; God is my rock, on whom I build my hope. Believers should not rest till they have received some token that their prayers are heard. He prays that he may not be numbered with the wicked. Save me from being entangled in the snares they have laid for me. Save me from being infected with their sins, and from doing as they do. Lord, never leave me to use such…
Psalms 28:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 28:2
- Psalms 141:2
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
- Psalms 138:2
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
- Psalms 140:6
I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.
- 1 Timothy 2:8
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
- Psalms 134:2
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
- Psalms 5:7
But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
- Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
- Psalms 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
- 1 Kings 6:22-23
And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold. And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
- Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
- Psalms 143:6
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
- 1 Kings 8:38
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
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Context
- Psalms 28:1
A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
- Psalms 28:2
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
- Psalms 28:3
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Psalms 28:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Oye la voz de mis ruegos cuando clamo á ti, cuando alzo mis manos hacia el templo de tu santidad. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Écoute la voix de mes supplications quand je crie à toi, quand j’élève mes mains vers l’oracle de ta sainteté. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Höre die Stimme meines Flehens, wenn ich zu dir schreie, wenn ich meine Hände aufhebe gegen deinen heiligen Sprachort. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Afferte Domino gloriam et honorem; afferte Domino gloriam nomini ejus; adorate Dominum in atrio sancto ejus. |