Psalms 88:2

For you have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: your truth shall be established in the heavens. 1

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

In Context

1I will sing of your mercies, O Lord, for ever: I will declare your truth with my mouth to all generations. 1

3I made a covenant with my chosen ones, I swore to David my servant. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:31Whatsoever trespasses + 8:31 Gr. each. any one shall commit against his neighbor,—and if he shall take upon him an oath so that he should swear, and he shall come and make confession before your altar in this house,

Psalms 31:2Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin, and whose mouth there is no guile. 1

Psalms 86:3Glorious things have been spoken of you, O city of God. Pause. 1

Psalms 141:1I cried to the Lord with my voice; with my voice I made supplication to the Lord. 1

Matthew Henry on Psalms 88:2-10

Sorrowful Complaints; Complaining to God. 1 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: 2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in… Read the whole commentary →

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