The Lord has heard my (A)plea;
    the Lord accepts my prayer.

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Deliver Me, O Lord

A Song of (A)Ascents.

120 In my distress I called to the Lord,
    and he answered me.

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19 But truly (A)God has listened;
    he has attended to the voice of my prayer.

20 Blessed be God,
    because he has not rejected my prayer
    or removed his steadfast love from me!

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(A)Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, (B)“My grace is sufficient for you, for (C)my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that (D)the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 (E)For the sake of Christ, then, (F)I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For (G)when I am weak, then I am strong.

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My Help and My Deliverer

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

40 I (A)waited patiently for the Lord;
    he inclined to me and (B)heard my cry.
He drew me up from (C)the pit of destruction,
    out of (D)the miry bog,
and (E)set my feet upon a rock,
    (F)making my steps secure.

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When my life was fainting away,
    I remembered the Lord,
(A)and my prayer came to you,
    into your holy temple.

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On the day I called, you answered me;
    my strength of soul you increased.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 138:3 Hebrew you made me bold in my soul with strength

(A)Out of my distress I (B)called on the Lord;
    the Lord answered me and set me (C)free.

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10 (A)He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. (B)On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. 11 (C)You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf (D)for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.

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saying,

(A)“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,
    and he answered me;
(B)out of the belly of Sheol I cried,
    (C)and you heard my voice.

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I Love the Lord

116 I (A)love the Lord, because he has (B)heard
    my voice and my pleas for mercy.
Because he (C)inclined his ear to me,
    therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

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I (A)cried aloud to the Lord,
    and he (B)answered me from his (C)holy hill. Selah

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22 I had said in my (A)alarm,[a]
    “I am (B)cut off from (C)your sight.”
But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy
    when I cried to you for help.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 31:22 Or in my haste

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