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New Century Version

Psalms 28:2

Hear the sound of my prayer, when I cry out to you for help. I raise my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   Oracle;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Hands;   Lifting up Hands;   The Topic Concordance - Rendering;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prayer;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Church;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Divination;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lift;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Hand;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Benediction;   Gestures;   Heaven ;   Veil;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Oracle;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Lift;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Holy of Holies;   Oracle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hand;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Listen to the sound of my pleadingwhen I cry to you for help,when I lift up my handstoward your holy sanctuary.
Hebrew Names Version
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
King James Version
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
English Standard Version
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.
New English Translation
Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy temple!
Amplified Bible
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).
New American Standard Bible
Hear the sound of my pleadings when I cry to You for help, When I raise my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
World English Bible
Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare the voyce of my petitions, when I crie vnto thee, when I holde vp mine handes towarde thine holy Oracle.
Legacy Standard Bible
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help,When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Berean Standard Bible
Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
Contemporary English Version
Please listen to my prayer and my cry for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy temple.
Complete Jewish Bible
Hear the sound of my prayers when I cry to you, when I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
Darby Translation
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward the oracle of thy holiness.
Easy-to-Read Version
I lift my hands and pray toward your Most Holy Place. Hear me when I call to you. Show mercy to me.
George Lamsa Translation
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.
Good News Translation
Hear me when I cry to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy Temple.
Lexham English Bible
Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary.
Literal Translation
Hear the voice of my prayers in my crying to You, when I lift my hands toward Your Holy of Holies.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Heare the voyce of my humble peticion, when I crie vnto the, and holde vp my hondes towarde thy holy temple.
American Standard Version
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee,
King James Version (1611)
Heare the voyce of my supplications, when I cry vnto thee: when I lift vp my handes toward thy holy Oracle.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hearken to the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy temple.
English Revised Version
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, here thou the vois of my bisechyng, while Y preie to thee; whyle Y reise myn hondis to thin hooli temple.
Update Bible Version
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands toward your holy oracle.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to thee, when I lift my hands towards thy holy oracle.
New King James Version
Hear the voice of my supplications When I cry to You, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
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.
New Life Bible
Hear my cry for loving-kindness as I call to You for help, and when I lift up my hands to Your holy place.
New Revised Standard
Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear the voice of my supplication, when I cry to thee for help, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy shrine.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(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.
Revised Standard Version
Hear the voice of my supplication, as I cry to thee for help, as I lift up my hands toward thy most holy sanctuary.
Young's Literal Translation
Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee, In my lifting up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
THE MESSAGE
I'm letting you know what I need, calling out for help And lifting my arms toward your inner sanctum.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
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

1

Of David.

Lord , my Rock, I call out to you for help. Do not be deaf to me. If you are silent, I will be like those in the grave. 2 Hear the sound of my prayer, when I cry out to you for help. I raise my hands toward your Most Holy Place. 3 Don't drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil. They say "Peace" to their neighbors, but evil is in their hearts. 4 Pay them back for what they have done, for their evil deeds. Pay them back for what they have done; give them their reward. 5 They don't understand what the Lord has done or what he has made. So he will knock them down and not lift them up.

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

Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left, carrying with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Northwest Mesopotamia to Nahor's city.
Genesis 24:29
She had a brother named Laban, who ran out to Abraham's servant, who was still at the spring.
Genesis 24:50
Laban and Bethuel answered, "This is clearly from the Lord , and we cannot change what must happen.
Genesis 25:20
When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, who came from Northwest Mesopotamia. She was Bethuel's daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob to Northwest Mesopotamia, to Laban the brother of Rebekah. Bethuel the Aramean was the father of Laban and Rebekah, and Rebekah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Genesis 28:15
I am with you and will protect you everywhere you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
Genesis 28:20
Then Jacob made a promise. He said, "I want God to be with me and to protect me on this journey. I want him to give me food to eat and clothes to wear
Genesis 29:1
Then Jacob continued his journey and came to the land of the people of the East.
Genesis 31:18
and they began their journey back to Isaac, his father, in the land of Canaan. All the flocks of animals that Jacob owned walked ahead of them. He carried everything with him that he had gotten while he lived in Northwest Mesopotamia.
Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the kindness and continual goodness you have shown me. The first time I traveled across the Jordan River, I had only my walking stick, but now I own enough to have two camps.

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.


 
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