¹ <A Prayer. Of David.> Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

⁶ Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. On a corded instrument. Of David.> Let my cry come to you, O God; let your ears be open to my prayer.

¹ <A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.

¹³ And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

¹⁰ But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

¹⁸ O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.

¹⁹ O Lord, give ear; O Lord, have forgiveness; O Lord, take note and do; let there be no more waiting; for the honour of your name, O my God, because your town and your people are named by your name.

⁸ These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.

²¹ My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

¹⁸ The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.

¹ <Maschil. Of David. A prayer when he was in the hole of the rock.> The sound of my cry went up to the Lord; with my voice I made my prayer for grace to the Lord.

¹² I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

⁶ Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.

² Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.

⁸ The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

²⁰ The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

⁴⁴ From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

¹ Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

² Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

³ I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

¹⁹ But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

¹⁵ Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.