Psalms 38:9

38:9 O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire; ¹ 

my groaning is not hidden from you.

Psalms 66:18-19

66:18 If I had harbored sin in my heart, ² 

the Lord would not have listened.

66:19 However, God heard;

he listened to my prayer.

James 5:16

5:16 So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great effectiveness. ³ 

[38:9]  ¹ tn Heb “O Lord, before you [is] all my desire.”

[66:18]  ² tn Heb “sin if I had seen in my heart.”

[5:16]  ³ tn Or “the fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful”; Grk “is very powerful in its working.”