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The LORD Is My Strength

Psalms 28:2

In 11 translations

BSB
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.Or Your innermost sanctuary or Your Most Holy Place
KJV
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.thy…: or, the oracle of thy sanctuary
WEB
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
ASV
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
LSV
Hear the voice of my supplications, || In my crying to You, || In my lifting up my hands toward your holy oracle.
YLT
Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
DBY
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.
DRC27:2
Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.
GNV
Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle.
JPS
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee, when I lift up my hands toward Thy holy Sanctuary.
LXXE27:2
Hearken to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
שְׁמַ֤ע ק֣וֹל תַּ֭חֲנוּנַי בְּשַׁוְּעִ֣י אֵלֶ֑יךָ בְּנָשְׂאִ֥י יָ֝דַ֗י אֶל־דְּבִ֥יר קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃
LXX-Br27:2
Εἰσάκουσον τῆς φωνῆς τῆς δεήσεώς μου, ἐν τῷ δέεσθαί με πρὸς σὲ, ἐν τῷ αἴρειν με χεῖράς μου εἰς ναὸν ἅγιόν σου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 141:2May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
  • Psalms 138:2I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.
  • Psalms 140:6I say to the LORD, “You are my God.” Hear, O LORD, my cry for help.
  • 1 Timothy 2:8Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
  • Psalms 5:7But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will bow down toward Your holy temple.
  • Psalms 134:2Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
  • Daniel 6:10Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to…
  • 1 Kings 8:28–30Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today. May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward…
  • Psalms 143:6I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
  • 1 Kings 6:22–23So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary. In the inner sanctuary he made two…
  • Psalms 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
  • 2 Chronicles 6:13Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread…
  • 1 Kings 8:38then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
  • Psalms 63:4So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
  • Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the…
  • 1 Kings 6:19Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 27:2 in some Bibles
  • 28:2 in most Bibles

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