Psalm 86:1 {85:1}
Good News Translation
Listen to me, LORD, and answer me, for I am helpless and weak.

New Revised Standard Version
Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

Contemporary English Version
Please listen, LORD, and answer my prayer! I am poor and helpless.

New American Bible
A prayer of David. Incline your ear, LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and oppressed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.

A Prayer of David.

Psalm 102:1 The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. [2] Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

Psalm 142:1 Of understanding for David, A prayer when he was in the cave. [2] I cried to the Lord with my voice: with my voice I made supplication to the Lord.

Bow

Psalm 31:2 Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.

Isaiah 37:17 Incline, O Lord, thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes, and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to blaspheme the living God.

Daniel 9:18 Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear: open thy eyes, and see our desolation, and the city upon which thy name is called: for it is not for our justifications that we present our prayers before thy face, but for the multitude of thy tender mercies.

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Psalm 10:14 Thou seest it, for thou considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be a helper to the orphan.

Psalm 34:6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 40:17 But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.

Psalm 72:12-14 For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper. . . .

Psalm 102:17 He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

Psalm 119:22 Remove from me reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies.

Psalm 140:12 I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.

Isaiah 66:2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 4:18 The spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart,

James 1:9,10 But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation: . . .

James 2:5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

Context
Tried But Trusting
1A prayer for David himself. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am needy and poor.2Preserve my soul, for I am holy: save thy servant, O my God, that trusteth in thee.…
Cross References
Psalm 17:6
I have cried to thee, for thou, O God, hast heard me: O incline thy ear unto me, and hear my words.

Psalm 31:2
Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.

Psalm 37:14
The wicked have drawn out the sword: they have bent their bow. To cast down the poor and needy, to kill the upright of heart.

Psalm 40:17
But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack.

Psalm 70:5
But I am needy and poor; O God, help me. Thou art my helper and my deliverer: O Lord, make no delay.

Psalm 71:2
Deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me. Incline thy ear unto me, and save me.

Psalm 88:2
Let my prayer come in before thee: incline thy ear to my petition.

Psalm 109:22
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is troubled within me.

Psalm 85:13
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