Mazmur 5:2

5:2 Pay attention to my cry for help,

my king and my God,

for I am praying to you!

Mazmur 22:24

22:24 For he did not despise or detest the suffering ¹  of the oppressed; ² 

he did not ignore him; ³ 

when he cried out to him, he responded. ⁴ 

Mazmur 31:22

31:22 I jumped to conclusions and said, ⁵ 

“I am cut off from your presence!” ⁶ 

But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

Mazmur 69:33

69:33 For the Lord listens to the needy;

he does not despise his captive people. ⁷ 

Mazmur 102:17

102:17 when he responds to the prayer of the destitute, ⁸ 

and does not reject ⁹  their request. ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 103:10

103:10 He does not deal with us as our sins deserve; ¹¹ 

he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve. ¹² 

[22:24]  ¹ tn Or “affliction”; or “need.”

[22:24]  ² sn In this verse the psalmist refers to himself in the third person and characterizes himself as oppressed.

[22:24]  ³ tn Heb “he did not hide his face from him.” For other uses of the idiom “hide the face” meaning “ignore,” see Pss 10:11; 13:1; 51:9. Sometimes the idiom carries the stronger idea of “reject” (see Pss 27:9; 88:14).

[22:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “heard.”

[31:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “and I, I said in my haste.”

[31:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “from before your eyes.”

[69:33]  ⁷ tn Heb “his prisoners he does not despise.”

[102:17]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew adjective עַרְעָר (’arar, “destitute”) occurs only here in the OT. It is derived from the verbal root ערר (“to strip oneself”).

[102:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “despise.”

[102:17]  ¹⁰ tn The perfect verbal forms in vv. 16-17 are functioning as future perfects, indicating future actions that will precede the future developments described in v. 15.

[103:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “not according to our sins does he do to us.”

[103:10]  ¹² tn Heb “and not according to our misdeeds does he repay us.”