Psalms 6:9

6:9 The Lord has heard my appeal for mercy;

the Lord has accepted ¹  my prayer.

Psalms 34:6

34:6 This oppressed man cried out and the Lord heard;

he saved him ²  from all his troubles.

Psalms 116:1-2

Psalm 116 ³ 

116:1 I love the Lord

because he heard my plea for mercy, ⁴ 

116:2 and listened to me. ⁵ 

As long as I live, I will call to him when I need help. ⁶ 

Lamentations 3:55-56

ק (Qof)

3:55 I have called on your name, O Lord,

from the deepest pit. ⁷ 

3:56 You heard ⁸  my plea: ⁹ 

“Do not close your ears to my cry for relief!” ¹⁰ 

Hebrews 5:7

5:7 During his earthly life ¹¹  Christ ¹²  offered ¹³  both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

Hebrews 5:1

5:1 For every high priest is taken from among the people ¹⁴  and appointed ¹⁵  to represent them before God, ¹⁶  to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Hebrews 3:1

Jesus and Moses

3:1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, ¹⁷  partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess, ¹⁸ 

¹ tn The prefixed verbal form is probably a preterite here; it is parallel to a perfect and refers to the fact that the Lord has responded favorably to the psalmist’s request.

² tn The pronoun refers back to “this oppressed man,” namely, the psalmist.

³ sn Psalm 116. The psalmist thanks the Lord for delivering him from a life threatening crisis and promises to tell the entire covenant community what God has done for him.

⁴ tn Heb “I love because the Lord heard my voice, my pleas.” It is possible that “the Lord” originally appeared directly after “I love” and was later accidentally misplaced. The translation assumes the prefixed verbal form is a preterite. The psalmist recalls that God heard his cry for help (note the perfect in v. 2a and the narrative in vv. 3-4).

⁵ tn Heb “because he turned his ear to me.”

⁶ tn Heb “and in my days I will cry out.”

⁷ tn Heb “from a pit of lowest places.”

⁸ tn The verb could be understood as a precative, “hear my plea,” parallel to the following volitive verb, “do not close.”

⁹ tn Heb “my voice.”

¹⁰ tn The preposition ל (lamed) continues syntactically from “my plea” in the previous line (e.g. Ex 5:2; Josh 22:2; 1 Sam 8:7; 12:1; Jer 43:4).

¹¹ tn Grk “in the days of his flesh.”

¹² tn Grk “he”; the referent (Christ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹³ tn Grk “who…having offered,” continuing the description of Christ from Heb 5:5-6.

¹⁴ tn Grk “from among men,” but since the point in context is shared humanity (rather than shared maleness), the plural Greek term ἀνθρώπων (anqrwpwn) has been translated “people.”

¹⁵ tn Grk “who is taken from among people is appointed.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “appointed on behalf of people in reference to things relating to God.”

¹⁷ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.

¹⁸ tn Grk “of our confession.”