Psalm 28:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Please listen to my prayer and my cry for help, as I lift my hands towards your holy temple.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:19

The sacred chest was kept in the most holy place.

1 Kings 6:5

Along the sides and back of the temple, there were three levels of storage rooms. The rooms on the bottom level were just over two metres wide, the rooms on the middle level were over two and a half metres wide, and those on the top level were just over three metres wide. There were ledges on the outside of the temple that supported the beams of the storage rooms, so that nothing was built into the temple walls.

1 Kings 8:38

Listen when anyone in Israel truly feels sorry and sincerely prays with arms lifted towards your temple.

Psalm 125:5

When the LORD punishes the wicked, he will punish everyone else who lives a crooked life. Pray for peace in Israel!

Psalm 130:2

Won't you please listen as I beg for mercy?

Psalm 134:2

lift your hands in prayer towards his holy place and praise the LORD.

Psalm 138:2

I worship at your holy temple and praise you for your love and your faithfulness. You were true to your word and made yourself more famous than ever before.

Psalm 140:6

You, LORD, are my God! Please listen to my prayer.

Psalm 141:1

I pray to you, LORD! Please listen when I pray and hurry to help me.

Psalm 141:2

Think of my prayer as sweet-smelling incense, and think of my lifted hands as an evening sacrifice.

Psalm 143:6

Then I lift my hands in prayer, because my soul is a desert, thirsty for water from you.

Psalm 5:7

Because of your great mercy, I come to your house, LORD, and I am filled with wonder as I bow down to worship at your holy temple.

Psalm 63:4

As long as I live, I will pray to you.

Lamentations 2:19

Get up and pray for help all through the night. Pour out your feelings to the Lord, as you would pour water out of a jug. Beg him to save your people, who are starving to death at every street crossing.

Daniel 6:10

Daniel heard about the law, but when he returned home, he went upstairs and prayed in front of the window that faced Jerusalem. In the same way that he had always done, he knelt down in prayer three times a day, giving thanks to God.

Daniel 6:11

The men who had spoken to the king watched Daniel and saw him praying to his God for help.

1 Timothy 2:8

I want everyone everywhere to lift innocent hands towards heaven and pray, without being angry or arguing with each other.