Psalms 3:4
Hebrew Text— Psalms 3:4I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill.
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In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.
As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;
Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth!
Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
He said, “Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them. He shone from Mount Paran. He came from the ten thousands of holy ones. At his right hand was a fiery law for them.
Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?
Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”
“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”
How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!
Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.
Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.
Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.
You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.
My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.
God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.
Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for I pray to you.
This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.
Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!
It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani of the Levites stood up on the stairs, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”
Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.
Yahweh, who shall dwell in your sanctuary? Who shall live on your holy hill?
send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,
To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.