Psalm 28:2

New International Reader's Version

Hear my cry for your favor when I call out to you for help. Hear me when I lift up my hands in prayer toward your Most Holy Room.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:19

Solomon prepared the Most Holy Room inside the temple. That’s where the ark of the covenant of the Lord would be placed.

1 Kings 6:5

He built side rooms around the temple. They were built against the walls of the main hall and the Most Holy Room.

1 Kings 8:38

But suppose one of your people prays to you. They ask you to help them. They are aware of how much their own heart is suffering. And they spread out their hands toward this temple to pray.

2 Chronicles 6:13

He had made a bronze stage. It was seven and a half feet long and seven and a half feet wide. It was four and a half feet high. He had placed it in the center of the outer courtyard. He stood on the stage. Then he got down on his knees in front of the whole community of Israel. He spread out his hands toward heaven.

Psalm 125:5

But the Lord will drive out those who have taken crooked paths. He will drive them out with those who do evil things. May Israel enjoy peace.

Psalm 130:2

Lord, listen to me. Pay attention to my cry for your mercy.

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands in the temple and praise the Lord.

Psalm 138:2

I will bow down facing your holy temple. I will praise your name, because you are always loving and faithful. You have honored your holy word even more than your own fame.

Psalm 140:6

I say to the Lord, “You are my God.” Lord, hear my cry for mercy.

Psalm 141:1

I call out to you, Lord. Come quickly to help me. Listen to me when I call out to you.

Psalm 141:2

May my prayer come to you like the sweet smell of incense. When I lift up my hands in prayer, may it be like the evening sacrifice.

Psalm 143:6

I spread out my hands to you in prayer. I’m thirsty for you, just as dry ground is thirsty for rain.

Psalm 5:7

Because of your great love I can come into your house. With deep respect I bow down toward your holy temple.

Psalm 63:4

I will praise you as long as I live. I will call on your name when I lift up my hands in prayer.

Lamentations 2:19

Get up. Cry out as the night begins. Tell the Lord all your troubles. Lift up your hands to him. Pray that the lives of your children will be spared. At every street corner they faint because they are so hungry.

Daniel 6:10

Daniel found out that the king had signed the order. In spite of that, he did just as he had always done before. He went home to his upstairs room. Its windows opened toward Jerusalem. He went to his room three times a day to pray. He got down on his knees and gave thanks to his God.

Daniel 6:11

Some of the other royal officials went to where Daniel was staying. They saw him praying and asking God for help.

1 Timothy 2:8

So I want the men in every place to pray. I want them to lift up holy hands. I don’t want them to be angry when they pray. I don’t want them to argue.