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Psalm 130:2

Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

1A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, LORD.
2Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
3If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
4But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
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Notice

The repeated word “voice” makes this plea feel personal: someone crying from the depths wants the Lord to attend to what they say.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 40:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.Psalm 130 asks the Lord to hear a voice; Psalm 40 recounts how the Lord heard a cry.
Psalm 34:15The LORD’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.Both speak of the Lord's ears attending to a cry, with Psalm 34 affirming that he listens to the righteous.
2 Chronicles 6:40“Now, my God, let, I beg you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.Both prayers ask God for attentive ears, while Chronicles specifies prayer made in this place.
Nehemiah 1:11Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name; and please …Both ask the Lord to attend to prayer; Nehemiah adds a request for mercy before a particular man.
Psalm 61:1For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David. Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.Both address God with a direct plea to hear, pairing the sound of a voice or cry with prayer.
Isaiah 37:17Turn your ear, LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.Both appeal to the Lord's ear, though Isaiah asks him to hear words spoken in defiance of God.
Nehemiah 1:6let your ear now be attentive and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for …Both ask for God's attentive ear; Nehemiah's prayer includes confession, which also follows the plea in Psalm 130.
Daniel 9:17–19“Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the …Both ask God to listen to petitions, with Daniel naming the desolate sanctuary as the concern of his prayer.
2 Chronicles 7:15Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer that is made in this place.Psalm 130 requests attentive ears; Chronicles records God's promise of attentive ears to prayer made in this place.
2 Chronicles 6:19Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant and to his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before …Both plead for the Lord to listen, describing prayer as a voiced appeal brought before him.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. guilt and confession. anxiety or panic.

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Encouragement

Your prayer may begin with a plea to be heard. Here, the cry from the depths is addressed to the Lord, even before any answer is described.

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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).