Psalms 27:7

THE MESSAGE

Listen, God , I'm calling at the top of my lungs: "Be good to me! Answer me!" When my heart whispered, "Seek God," my whole being replied, "I'm seeking him!" Don't hide from me now! You've always been right there for me; don't turn your back on me now. Don't throw me out, don't abandon me; you've always kept the door open. My father and mother walked out and left me, but God took me in. Point me down your highway, God ; direct me along a well-lighted street; show my enemies whose side you're on. Don't throw me to the dogs, those liars who are out to get me, filling the air with their threats. I'm sure now I'll see God's goodness in the exuberant earth. Stay with God ! Take heart. Don't quit. I'll say it again: Stay with God .

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, hear my voice when I call;be gracious to me and answer me.

Hebrew Names Version
Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

King James Version
Hear, O Lord , when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

English Standard Version
Hear, O Lord , when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me!

New Century Version
Lord , hear me when I call; have mercy and answer me.

New English Translation
Hear me, O Lord , when I cry out! Have mercy on me and answer me!

Amplified Bible
Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud; Be gracious and compassionate to me and answer me.

New American Standard Bible
Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice, And be gracious to me and answer me.

World English Bible
Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Hearken vnto my voyce, O Lorde, when I crie: haue mercie also vpon mee and heare mee.

Legacy Standard Bible
Hear, O Yahweh, when I call with my voice,And be gracious to me and answer me.

Berean Standard Bible
Hear, O LORD, my voice when I call; be merciful and answer me.

Contemporary English Version
Please listen when I pray! Have pity. Answer my prayer.

Complete Jewish Bible
Listen, Adonai , to my voice when I cry; show favor to me; and answer me.

Darby Translation
Hear, Jehovah; with my voice do I call; be gracious unto me, and answer me.

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , hear my voice. Be kind and answer me.

George Lamsa Translation
Hear, O LORD, my voice when I call upon thee; have mercy also upon me and answer me.

Good News Translation
Hear me, Lord , when I call to you! Be merciful and answer me!

Lexham English Bible
Hear, O Yahweh, my voice when I call, and be gracious to me and answer me.

Literal Translation
Hear, O Jehovah, my voice when I call, and favor me, and answer me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Therfore wil I offre in his dwellinge, the oblacion of thakesgeuynge: I wil both synge & speake prayses vnto the LORDE.

American Standard Version
Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Bible in Basic English
O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear, O LORD, when I call with my voice, and be gracious unto me, and answer me.

King James Version (1611)
Heare, O Lord, when I crie with my voice: haue mercie also vpon mee, and answere me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hearken vnto my voyce O god, [when] I crye [vnto thee]: haue mercy vpon me and heare me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear, O Lord, my voice which I have uttered aloud: pity me, and hearken to me.

English Revised Version
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, here thou my vois, bi which Y criede to thee; haue thou merci on me, and here me.

Update Bible Version
Hear, O Yahweh, when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear, O LORD, [when] I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

New King James Version
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice! Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

New Living Translation
Hear me as I pray, O Lord . Be merciful and answer me!

New Life Bible
O Lord, listen to my cry. Show loving-kindness to me and answer me.

New Revised Standard
Hear, O Lord , when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear, O Yahweh, With my voice, do I cry, Oh then show me favour and answer me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(26-7) Hear, O Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee: have mercy on me and hear me.

Revised Standard Version
Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me!

Young's Literal Translation
Hear, O Jehovah, my voice -- I call, And favour me, and answer me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Hear, O Lord , when I cry with my voice, And be gracious to me and answer me.

Contextual Overview

⁷Listen, God , I'm calling at the top of my lungs: "Be good to me! Answer me!" When my heart whispered, "Seek God," my whole being replied, "I'm seeking him!" Don't hide from me now! You've always been right there for me; don't turn your back on me now. Don't throw me out, don't abandon me; you've always kept the door open. My father and mother walked out and left me, but God took me in. Point me down your highway, God ; direct me along a well-lighted street; show my enemies whose side you're on. Don't throw me to the dogs, those liars who are out to get me, filling the air with their threats. I'm sure now I'll see God's goodness in the exuberant earth. Stay with God ! Take heart. Don't quit. I'll say it again: Stay with God . ¹⁰class="psalm-title"> A David Psalm Light, space, zest— that's God ! So, with him on my side I'm fearless, afraid of no one and nothing. When vandal hordes ride down ready to eat me alive, Those bullies and toughs fall flat on their faces. When besieged, I'm calm as a baby. When all hell breaks loose, I'm collected and cool. I'm asking God for one thing, only one thing: To live with him in his house my whole life long. I'll contemplate his beauty; I'll study at his feet. That's the only quiet, secure place in a noisy world, The perfect getaway, far from the buzz of traffic. God holds me head and shoulders above all who try to pull me down. I'm headed for his place to offer anthems that will raise the roof! Already I'm singing God-songs; I'm making music to God . Listen, God , I'm calling at the top of my lungs: "Be good to me! Answer me!" When my heart whispered, "Seek God," my whole being replied, "I'm seeking him!" Don't hide from me now! You've always been right there for me; don't turn your back on me now. Don't throw me out, don't abandon me; you've always kept the door open. My father and mother walked out and left me, but God took me in. ¹¹Point me down your highway, God ; direct me along a well-lighted street; show my enemies whose side you're on. Don't throw me to the dogs, those liars who are out to get me, filling the air with their threats. ¹³I'm sure now I'll see God's goodness in the exuberant earth. Stay with God ! Take heart. Don't quit. I'll say it again: Stay with God .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 4:1, Psalms 5:2, Psalms 130:2-4, Psalms 143:1, Psalms 143:2

Reciprocal: Psalms 64:1 - Hear Psalms 140:6 - hear

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 33:1
Moses, man of God, blessed the People of Israel with this blessing before his death. He said, God came down from Sinai, he dawned from Seir upon them; He radiated light from Mount Paran, coming with ten thousand holy angels And tongues of fire streaming from his right hand. Oh, how you love the people, all his holy ones are palmed in your left hand. They sit at your feet, honoring your teaching, The Revelation commanded by Moses, as the assembly of Jacob's inheritance. Thus God became king in Jeshurun as the leaders and tribes of Israel gathered.

Joshua 6:26
Joshua swore a solemn oath at that time: Cursed before God is the man who sets out to rebuild this city Jericho. He'll pay for the foundation with his firstborn son, he'll pay for the gates with his youngest son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear, O Lord, [when] I cry with my voice,.... Which is to be understood of prayer, and that in the time of distress; and of vocal prayer, as distinguished from mental prayer; and the phrase denotes the vehemency and intenseness of it: and the request is, that the Lord would hear it; not only as he is omniscient and omnipresent, and so hears the prayers of all, good and bad; but as a God gracious and merciful, who sometimes very quickly hears, and answers in a gracious way, and sometimes seems to turn a deaf car, to shut out the prayers of his people, and cover himself with a cloud, that they should not pass through, or, however, defers an answer to it for a little while; yet, sooner or later, he always shows himself a God hearing prayer;

have mercy also upon me; by delivering him out of his temporal distresses, and by forgiving his iniquities;

and answer me; by speaking a word in season; commanding off the affliction he lay under, and by saying to him that his sins were forgiven him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice - This earnest prayer seems to have been prompted by a returning sense of danger. He had had assurance of the divine favor. He had found God ready to help him. He did not doubt but that He would aid him; yet all this did not prevent his calling upon Him for the aid which he needed, but rather stimulated him to do it. With all the deep-felt conviction of his heart that God was ready and willing to assist him, he still felt that he had no reason to hope for His aid unless he called upon Him. The phrase “when I cry with my voice” refers to the fact that he prayed audibly or aloud. It was not mental prayer, but that which found expression in the language of earnest entreaty.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 27:7. Hear, O Lord, when I cry — This is the utmost that any man of common sense can expect - to be heard when he cries. But there are multitudes who suppose God will bless them whether they cry or not; and there are others, and not a few, who although they listlessly pray and cry not, yet imagine God must and will hear them! God will answer them that pray and cry; those who do not are most likely to be without the blessings which they so much need.