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Psalm 4
For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David.
Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer.
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The Lord has heard my cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer.
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Psalm 17
A prayer of David.
Hear me, Lord, my plea is just; listen to my cry. Hear my prayer— it does not rise from deceitful lips.
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I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.
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Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
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“Hear my prayer, Lord, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with you as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
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By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
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Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.
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Psalm 55
For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David.
Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea;
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Psalm 61
For the director of music. With stringed instruments. Of David.
Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.
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You who answer prayer, to you all people will come.
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but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer.
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Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!
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This concludes the prayers of David son of Jesse.
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How long, Lord God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people?
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Hear my prayer, Lord God Almighty; listen to me, God of Jacob.
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Psalm 86
A prayer of David.
Hear me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
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Hear my prayer, Lord; listen to my cry for mercy.
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May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry.
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But I cry to you for help, Lord; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
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BOOK IV
Psalms 90–106
Psalm 90
A prayer of Moses the man of God.
Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
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Psalm 102
A prayer of an afflicted person who has grown weak and pours out a lament before the Lord.
Hear my prayer, Lord; let my cry for help come to you.
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He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.
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In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
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When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayers condemn him.