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Psalm 10:17

LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

15Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
16The LORD is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
17LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
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The desire of the humble reaches God in a psalm still pleading for justice, where confidence in his hearing comes before terror has ended.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Matthew 7:7“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.Both passages express confidence that asking meets a response, with the psalm stressing God's hearing of the humble.
Jeremiah 29:12You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.Both passages speak of God listening to people who turn to him in prayer.
Psalm 91:15He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.Both passages promise God's response to those who seek him, with Psalm 91 also naming his presence in trouble.
Psalm 34:6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.Both speak of the LORD having heard someone in need, whether the humble person's desire or the poor man's cry.
Psalm 145:19He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.Both connect desire with God's hearing, describing those who come to him as humble or as people who fear him.
Romans 8:26In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with …Both describe divine help in prayer: God prepares the heart, and the Spirit helps those who do not know how to pray.
2 Chronicles 34:27because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants, and have humbled …Both link humility with God's hearing, and both mention the heart in that encounter.
Psalm 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.Both passages connect need with a response: the humble are heard, and the needy who cry receive deliverance.
1 Kings 9:3The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put …Both affirm that the LORD has heard a plea, though Kings concerns a prayer associated with the house built for him.
1 Peter 3:12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”Both describe the Lord's ear as attentive to prayer, naming the humble in the psalm and the righteous in Peter.
Matthew 8:8The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.Humility marks both the desire God hears in the psalm and the centurion's appeal for his servant's healing.
Isaiah 65:24It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.Both affirm God's hearing, while Isaiah adds that his answer comes before the people call.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. waiting. wanting a steady prayer habit.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray for someone oppressed, asking God to hear

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Encouragement

God's care reaches the heart as well as the cry. In this plea for the oppressed, he hears the humble and will prepare their heart.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).