Psalm 17:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry; give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:24

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

2 Chronicles 7:15

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

Nehemiah 1:6

let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for your servants, the Israelites, confessing the sins of the Israelites, which we have sinned against you. Both I and my family have sinned.

Job 16:17

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

Psalm 102:2

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

Psalm 140:12

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

Psalm 142:1

With my voice I cry to the Lord; with my voice I make supplication to the Lord.

Psalm 142:6

Listen to my cry, for I am brought very low. Save me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Psalm 143:1

Hear my prayer, O Lord; give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness; answer me in your righteousness.

Psalm 145:18

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

Psalm 18:20

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

Psalm 18:44

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

Psalm 43:1

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

Psalm 5:2

Listen to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you I pray.

Psalm 54:4

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

Psalm 55:18

He will redeem me unharmed from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.

Psalm 61:1

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

Psalm 61:2

From the end of the earth I call to you, when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I,

Psalm 66:19

But truly God has listened; he has heard the words of my prayer.

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.

Psalm 84:9

Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed.

Psalm 86:1

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

Psalm 86:6

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

Psalm 88:3

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

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

Jeremiah 3:10

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

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, he said of him, “Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

1 John 3:21

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