Lamentations 3:56
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56 You heard me when I cried, “Listen to my pleading!
Hear my cry for help!”
Psalm 55:1
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Psalm 55
For the choir director: A psalm[a] of David, to be accompanied by stringed instruments.
1 Listen to my prayer, O God.
Do not ignore my cry for help!
Footnotes
- 55:Title Hebrew maskil. This may be a literary or musical term.
Job 34:28
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28 They cause the poor to cry out, catching God’s attention.
He hears the cries of the needy.
Romans 8:26
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26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
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Isaiah 38:5
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5 “Go back to Hezekiah and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add fifteen years to your life,
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Psalm 34:6
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6 In my desperation I prayed, and the Lord listened;
he saved me from all my troubles.
Psalm 6:8-9
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8 Go away, all you who do evil,
for the Lord has heard my weeping.
9 The Lord has heard my plea;
the Lord will answer my prayer.
Psalm 116:1-2
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Psalm 116
1 I love the Lord because he hears my voice
and my prayer for mercy.
2 Because he bends down to listen,
I will pray as long as I have breath!
Psalm 88:13-14
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13 O Lord, I cry out to you.
I will keep on pleading day by day.
14 O Lord, why do you reject me?
Why do you turn your face from me?
Psalm 66:19
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19 But God did listen!
He paid attention to my prayer.
Psalm 3:4
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4 I cried out to the Lord,
and he answered me from his holy mountain. Interlude
2 Chronicles 33:19
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19 Manasseh’s prayer, the account of the way God answered him, and an account of all his sins and unfaithfulness are recorded in The Record of the Seers.[a] It includes a list of the locations where he built pagan shrines and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself and repented.
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- 33:19 Or The Record of Hozai.
2 Chronicles 33:13
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13 And when he prayed, the Lord listened to him and was moved by his request. So the Lord brought Manasseh back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh finally realized that the Lord alone is God!
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