Psalms 5:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

Psalms 5:2 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 65:2
O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Psalms 3:4
I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 145:1
David's Psalm of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
Isaiah 33:22
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.
Psalms 84:3
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

The title of this psalm has nothing in it peculiar but that it is said to be upon Nehiloth, a word nowhere else used. It is conjectured (and it is but a conjecture) that is signifies wind —instruments, with which this psalm was sung, as Neginoth was supposed to signify the stringed —instruments. In Ps. 5:1-6 David had an eye to God, I. As a prayer-hearing God; such he has always been ever since me…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. Hearken--incline the ear (Psa 10:17; compare Psa 61:2)--give close attention. my cry--that is, for help (Psa 61:2; Jr 8:19). my King--thus by covenant relation interested in my cause.