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Psalm 6:9

The LORD has heard my supplication. The LORD accepts my prayer.

7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.
9The LORD has heard my supplication. The LORD accepts my prayer.
10May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
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Notice

“The LORD accepts my prayer” follows words of grief and weeping, expressing confidence that God receives the plea before the poem describes any change in circumstances.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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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 concern prayer in weakness: the psalm follows weeping, and Paul describes the Spirit helping when words fail.
Ephesians 6:18with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints.Prayer and requests are central to both passages, with the psalm declaring acceptance and Ephesians urging perseverance.
Psalm 66:19–20But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.Both psalms declare that God has heard the speaker’s prayer.
Psalm 120:1A Song of Ascents. In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.Both speakers cry to the LORD amid distress and affirm that their cries have reached him.
Psalm 138:3In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.Both speakers affirm that God has responded to their calling, with Psalm 138 naming strength as his answer.
2 Corinthians 12:8–10Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.Both passages describe earnest pleas to the Lord, though the supplied words from Corinthians do not describe his response.
Psalm 118:5Out of my distress, I called on the LORD. The LORD answered me with freedom.Both connect distress with calling on the LORD; Psalm 118 names freedom as the answer received.
Jonah 2:7“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.Both affirm that prayer reaches God amid suffering, with Jonah describing his prayer entering God’s holy temple.
1 Samuel 1:27I prayed for this child, and the LORD has given me my petition which I asked of him.Both affirm that the LORD receives petitions, with Hannah naming the child given in answer to hers.
2 Corinthians 1:10–11who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,Both express confidence in God; Psalm 6 speaks of prayer accepted, while Paul speaks of deliverance received and hoped for.
Jonah 2:2He said, “I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.Both speakers affirm that the LORD has heard their voices amid affliction.
Where this verse fits

Grief. answered prayer. wanting a steady prayer habit.

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Encouragement

You do not have to leave grief outside your prayers. In this psalm, weeping precedes the declaration of trust: YHWH has heard, and YHWH accepts the prayer.

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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).