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Psalms 28:2
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Listen to the sound of my pleadingwhen I cry to you for help,when I lift up my handstoward your holy sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.
Hear the sound of my prayer, when I cry out to you for help. I raise my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy temple!
Hear the voice of my supplication (specific requests, humble entreaties) as I cry to You for help, As I lift up my hands and heart toward Your innermost sanctuary (Holy of Holies).
Hear the sound of my pleadings when I cry to You for help, When I raise my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle.
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help,When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Hear the sound of my prayers when I cry to you, when I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.
I lift my hands and pray toward your Most Holy Place. Hear me when I call to you. Show mercy to me.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.
Hear me when I cry to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy Temple.
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my prayers in my crying to You, when I lift my hands toward Your Holy of Holies.
Heare the voyce of my humble peticion, when I crie vnto the, and holde vp my hondes towarde thy holy temple.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee,
Heare the voyce of my supplications, when I cry vnto thee: when I lift vp my handes toward thy holy Oracle.
Heare the voyce of my humble petitions when I crye vnto thee: when I holde vp my handes towarde thy holy place where thy arke is.
Hearken to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Lord, here thou the vois of my bisechyng, while Y preie to thee; whyle Y reise myn hondis to thin hooli temple.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to thee, when I lift my hands towards thy holy oracle.
Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
Hear my cry for loving-kindness as I call to You for help, and when I lift up my hands to Your holy place.
Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee for help, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy shrine.
(27-2) Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.
Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to thee for help, as I lift up my hands toward thy most holy sanctuary.
Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
I'm letting you know what I need, calling out for help And lifting my arms toward your inner sanctum.
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Contextual Overview
(By David.)
Only you, Lord , are a mighty rock! Don't refuse to help me when I pray. If you don't answer me, I will soon be dead. 2 Please listen to my prayer and my cry for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy temple. 3 Don't drag me away, Lord , with those cruel people, who speak kind words, while planning trouble. 4 Treat them as they deserve! Punish them for their sins. 5 They don't pay any attention to your wonderful deeds. Now you will destroy them and leave them in ruin.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
when: Psalms 63:4, Psalms 125:5, Psalms 134:2, Psalms 141:2, Psalms 143:6, 2 Chronicles 6:13, 1 Timothy 2:8
thy holy oracle: or, the oracle of thy sanctuary, Psalms 5:7, Psalms 138:2, 1 Kings 6:19, 1 Kings 6:22, 1 Kings 6:23, 1 Kings 8:6-8, 1 Kings 8:28-30, 1 Kings 8:38, Daniel 6:10
Reciprocal: Leviticus 9:22 - his hand 2 Samuel 16:23 - as if 1 Kings 6:5 - oracle 1 Kings 8:22 - General 2 Chronicles 4:20 - the oracle 2 Chronicles 6:12 - spread forth Nehemiah 8:6 - with lifting Job 33:26 - pray Psalms 18:3 - I will Psalms 61:1 - Hear Psalms 140:6 - hear Psalms 142:1 - with my voice Lamentations 2:19 - lift up Lamentations 3:41 - with Micah 1:2 - the Lord from
Cross-References
Soon after that, the servant loaded ten of Abraham's camels with valuable gifts. Then he set out for the city in northern Syria, where Abraham's brother Nahor lived.
Her brother Laban heard her tell what the servant had said, and he saw the ring and the bracelets she was wearing. So Laban ran out to Abraham's servant, who was standing by his camels at the well.
Laban and Bethuel answered, "The Lord has done this. We have no choice in the matter.
and he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel. She was also the sister of Laban, the Aramean from northern Syria. Almost twenty years later,
Isaac then sent Jacob to stay with Rebekah's brother Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.
Wherever you go, I will watch over you, then later I will bring you back to this land. I won't leave you—I will do all I have promised.
Jacob solemnly promised God, "If you go with me and watch over me as I travel, and if you give me food and clothes
As Jacob continued on his way to the east,
for the home of his father Isaac in Canaan. Jacob took all of the flocks, herds, and other property that he had gotten in northern Syria.
I don't deserve all the good things you have done for me, your servant. When I first crossed the Jordan, I had only my walking stick, but now I have two large groups of people and animals.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hear the voice of my supplications,.... Which proceed from the Spirit of grace and of supplication, and are put up in an humble manner, under a sense of wants and unworthiness, and on the foot of grace and mercy, and not merit;
when I cry unto thee; as he now did, and determined he would, and continue so doing, until he was heard;
when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle: the holy of holies, in the tabernacle and in the temple, which was sometimes so called, 1 Kings 6:23; compared with 2 Chronicles 3:10; where were the ark, the mercy seat, and cherubim, between which the Lord dwelt, and gave responses to his people; or heaven itself, which the holy of holies was a figure of; where is the throne of God, and from whence he hears the prayers of his people directed to him; or else Christ himself, who is the most Holy, and the "Debir", or Oracle, who speaks to the Lord for his people; and by whom the Lord speaks to them again, and communes with them. The oracle had its name, "debir", from speaking. Lifting up of the hands is a prayer gesture, and here designs the performance of that duty to God in heaven, through Christ; see Lamentations 3:41; it was frequently used, even by the Heathens, as a prayer gesture r; see Psalms 141:2.
r "Duplices manus ad sidera tendit--et paulo post--et ambas ad coelum tendit palmas", Virgil. Aeneid. 10. vid. Aeneid. 2. "Ad coelum manibus sublatis", Horat. Satyr. l. 2. satyr. 5. v. 97. "Coelo supines si tuleris manus", ib. Carmin. l. 3. Ode 23. v. 1. "Et pandere palmas ante Deum delubra", Lucretius l. 5. prope finem
δη χειρα ανασχων, Homer. Iliad. 5. v. 174.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hear the voice of my supplications - It was not mental prayer which he offered; it was a petition uttered audibly.
When I lift up my hands - To lift up the hands denotes supplication, as this was a common attitude in prayer. See the notes at 1 Timothy 2:8.
Toward thy holy oracle - Margin, as in Hebrew, “toward the oracle of thy holiness.” The word “oracle” as used here denotes the place where the answer to prayer is given. The Hebrew word - דביר debı̂yr - means properly the inner sanctuary of the tabernacle or the temple, the place where God was supposed to reside, and where He gave responses to the prayers of His people: the same place which is elsewhere called the holy of holies. See the notes at Hebrews 9:3-14. The Hebrew word is found only here and in 1 Kings 6:5, 1 Kings 6:16, 1Ki 6:19-23, 1 Kings 6:31; 1Ki 7:49; 1 Kings 8:6, 1Ki 8:8; 2 Chronicles 3:16; 2 Chronicles 4:20; 2 Chronicles 5:7, 2 Chronicles 5:9. The idea here is that he who prayed stretched out his hands toward that sacred place where God was supposed to dwell. So we stretch out our hands toward heaven - the sacred dwelling-place of God. Compare the notes at Psalms 5:7. The Hebrew word is probably derived from the verb to “speak;” and, according to this derivation, the idea is that God spoke to His people; that he “communed” with them; that He answered their prayers from that sacred recess - His special dwelling-place. See Exodus 25:22; Numbers 7:89.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 28:2. Toward thy holy oracle. — דביר קדשך debir kodshecha; debir properly means that place in the holy of holies from which God gave oracular answers to the high priest. This is a presumptive proof that there was a temple now standing; and the custom of stretching out the hands in prayer towards the temple, when the Jews were at a distance from it, is here referred to.
