Psalm 28:2

New Living Translation

Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:19

He prepared the inner sanctuary at the far end of the Temple, where the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant would be placed.

1 Kings 6:5

He built a complex of rooms against the outer walls of the Temple, all the way around the sides and rear of the building.

1 Kings 8:38

and if your people Israel pray about their troubles, raising their hands toward this Temple,

2 Chronicles 6:13

Now Solomon had made a bronze platform 7-1/2 feet long, 7-1/2 feet wide, and 4-1/2 feet high and had placed it at the center of the Temple’s outer courtyard. He stood on the platform, and then he knelt in front of the entire community of Israel and lifted his hands toward heaven.

Psalm 125:5

But banish those who turn to crooked ways, O Lord. Take them away with those who do evil. May Israel have peace!

Psalm 130:2

Hear my cry, O Lord. Pay attention to my prayer.

Psalm 134:2

Lift your hands toward the sanctuary, and praise the Lord.

Psalm 138:2

I bow before your holy Temple as I worship. I praise your name for your unfailing love and faithfulness; for your promises are backed by all the honor of your name.

Psalm 140:6

I said to the Lord, “You are my God!” Listen, O Lord, to my cries for mercy!

Psalm 141:1

O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!

Psalm 141:2

Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

Psalm 143:6

I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain. Interlude

Psalm 5:7

Because of your unfailing love, I can enter your house; I will worship at your Temple with deepest awe.

Psalm 63:4

I will praise you as long as I live, lifting up my hands to you in prayer.

Lamentations 2:19

Rise during the night and cry out. Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord. Lift up your hands to him in prayer, pleading for your children, for in every street they are faint with hunger.

Daniel 6:10

But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.

Daniel 6:11

Then the officials went together to Daniel’s house and found him praying and asking for God’s help.

1 Timothy 2:8

In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy.