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Psalm 32:6

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
7You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
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“For this” roots the urge to pray in forgiveness received, giving urgency to the time when God may be found and confidence amid threatening waters.

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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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Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.Both passages urge prayer while God may be found, treating the present opportunity to seek him as something to take seriously.
Isaiah 54:17No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the LORD’s …Both describe God's protection for those who belong to him, using overflowing waters in the psalm and hostile weapons in Isaiah.
Isaiah 43:2When 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 …Both use threatening waters to describe danger and promise protection, with Isaiah naming God's presence through the waters.
2 Corinthians 6:2For he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of …Both speak of a time when God can be approached for help, and Paul declares that the acceptable time is now.
Jeremiah 29:13You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.Both speak of God being found, connecting that hope with prayer in the psalm and wholehearted seeking in Jeremiah.
Psalm 91:7A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.Both picture danger close at hand while declaring that it will not reach the person under God's protection.
Psalm 69:13But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.Both connect prayer with an opportune time to approach God and express trust in his saving help.
Proverbs 1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,The shared language of calling and finding carries contrasting outcomes: prayer encouraged here, unanswered calls in Proverbs.
2 Samuel 22:17He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.Both portray God's protection through water imagery: waters kept from reaching someone here, and rescue from many waters in Samuel.
Psalm 34:2–5My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it and be glad.Both psalms turn personal testimony about God toward others, encouraging prayer here and gladness among the humble in Psalm 34.
Psalm 4:3But know that the LORD has set apart for himself him who is godly; The LORD will hear when I call to him.Both connect being godly with prayer, expressing confidence that God receives those who call to him.
Matthew 7:24–27“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.The shared thread is a response to instruction: praying to God here, and hearing and doing Jesus’ words in Matthew.
Where this verse fits

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Encouragement

The prayer urged here follows a confession met with forgiveness. Its confidence rests in God, whose protection the psalm pictures as safety from overflowing waters.

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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).