Psalm 86:1

The Passion Translation

Lord, bend down to listen to my prayer. I am in deep trouble. I’m broken and humbled, and I desperately need your help.

Cross References

Psalm 10:14

Lord, I know you see all that they’re doing, noting their each and every deed. You know the trouble and turmoil they’ve caused. Now punish them thoroughly for all that they’ve done! The poor and helpless ones trust in you, Lord, for you are famous for being the helper of the fatherless. I know you won’t let them down.

Psalm 102:1

Lord, listen to my prayer! Listen to my cry for help!

Psalm 102:17

He responds to the prayer of the poor and broken and will not despise the cry of the homeless.

Psalm 119:22

Don’t let them mock and scorn me for obeying you.

Psalm 140:12

For I know, Lord, that you will be the hero of all those they persecute, and you will secure justice for the poor.

Psalm 142:1

God, I’m crying out to you! I lift up my voice boldly to beg for your mercy.

Psalm 17:6

You will answer me, God; I know you always will. Hear my words like you always do as you listen to my every prayer.

Psalm 25:16

Sorrows fill my heart as I feel helpless, mistreated— I’m all alone and in misery! Come closer to me now, for I need your mercy.

Psalm 31:2

Rescue me quickly when I cry out to you. At the sound of my prayer may your ear be turned to me. Be my strong shelter and hiding place on high. Pull me into victory and breakthrough.

Psalm 34:6

When I had nothing, desperate and defeated, I cried out to the Lord and he heard me, bringing his miracle-deliverance when I needed it most.

Psalm 40:17

Lord, in my place of weakness and need, I ask again: Will you come and help me? I know I’m always in your thoughts. You are my true Savior and hero, so don’t delay to deliver me now, for you are my God.

Isaiah 37:17

Please lean down to hear my prayer. Yahweh, open your eyes and see me here calling out to you. Listen carefully to every blasphemous word Sennacherib has sent to ridicule and insult you, the living God.

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made these things so they all belong to me,” declares Yahweh. “But there is one my eyes are drawn to: the humble one, the tender one, the trembling one who lives in awe of all I say.

Daniel 9:18

Turn your heart to hear my prayer, O my God. Listen to my cry and please look carefully and see our despair and the devastated city, which bears your name. We bring our requests to you and ask for your mercy, not because we deserve it but because of your extravagant, infinite love.

Matthew 5:3

“What happiness comes to you when you feel your spiritual poverty! For yours is the realm of heaven’s kingdom.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and he has anointed me to be hope for the poor, healing for the brokenhearted, and new eyes for the blind, and to preach to prisoners, ‘You are set free!’ I have come to share the message of Jubilee, for the time of God’s great acceptance has begun.”

James 2:5

So listen carefully, my dear brothers and sisters, hasn’t God chosen the poor in the world’s eyes to be those who are rich in faith? And won’t they be the heirs of the kingdom-realm he promised to those who love him?