Psalm 86:1

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

INCLINE YOUR ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and distressed, needy and desiring.

Cross References

Psalm 10:14

You have seen it; yes, You note trouble and grief (vexation) to requite it with Your hand. The unfortunate commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.

Psalm 102:1

HEAR MY prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You.

Psalm 102:17

He will regard the plea of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.

Psalm 119:22

Take away from me reproach and contempt, for I keep Your testimonies.

Psalm 140:12

I know and rest in confidence upon it that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will secure justice for the poor and needy [of His believing children].

Psalm 142:1

I CRY to the Lord with my voice; with my voice to the Lord do I make supplication.

Psalm 17:6

I have called upon You, O God, for You will hear me; incline Your ear to me and hear my speech.

Psalm 25:16

[Lord] turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.

Psalm 31:2

Bow down Your ear to me, deliver me speedily! Be my Rock of refuge, a strong Fortress to save me!

Psalm 34:6

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 40:17

[As for me] I am poor and needy, yet the Lord takes thought and plans for me. You are my Help and my Deliverer. O my God, do not tarry! [Ps. 70:1-5; I Pet. 5:7.]

Isaiah 37:17

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to mock, reproach, insult, and defy the living God.

Isaiah 66:2

For all these things My hand has made, and so all these things have come into being [by and for Me], says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look and have regard: he who is humble and of a broken or wounded spirit, and who trembles at My word and reveres My commands. [John 4:24.]

Daniel 9:18

O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and look at our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You for our own righteousness and justice, but for Your great mercy and loving-kindness.

Matthew 5:3

Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous–with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the poor in spirit (the humble, who rate themselves insignificant), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!

Luke 4:18

The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me [the Anointed One, the Messiah] to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed [who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity],

James 2:5

Listen, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and in their position as believers and to inherit the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?