Psalm 17:1 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹ Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ HEAR THE right (my righteous cause), O Lord; listen to my shrill, piercing cry! Give ear to my prayer, that comes from unfeigned and guileless lips.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; Give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Common English Bible

¹ Listen to what’s right, LORD; pay attention to my cry! Listen closely to my prayer; it’s spoken by lips that don’t lie!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Unto the end. For David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke the words of this canticle to the Lord, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said:

Psalm 17:1 Cross References

Psalm 142:6

Give heed to my cry; for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are too strong for me!

Psalm 61:1

Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer;

1 John 3:21

Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

Psalm 145:18

The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

Psalm 142:1

I cry with my voice to the Lord, with my voice I make supplication to the Lord,

Psalm 140:12

I know that the Lord maintains the cause of the afflicted, and executes justice for the needy.

Psalm 86:1

Incline thy ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Psalm 66:19

But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

Psalm 43:1

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from deceitful and unjust men deliver me!

Psalm 18:20

The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.

Psalm 7:8

The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

2 Chronicles 7:15

Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

Psalm 5:2

Hearken to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to thee do I pray.

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathana-el coming to him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!”

Psalm 18:44

As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.

Nehemiah 1:6

let thy ear be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant which I now pray before thee day and night for the people of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against thee. Yea, I and my father's house have sinned.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the Lord.”

2 Samuel 22:24

I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.

Job 16:17

although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

Psalm 54:4

Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.

Psalm 55:18

He will deliver my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.

Psalm 61:2

from the end of the earth I call to thee, when my heart is faint. Lead thou me to the rock that is higher than I;

Psalm 84:9

Behold our shield, O God; look upon the face of thine anointed!

Psalm 86:6

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; hearken to my cry of supplication.

Psalm 88:3

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

Psalm 102:2

Do not hide thy face from me in the day of my distress! Incline thy ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!

Psalm 143:1

Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my supplications! In thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness!