Psalm 22:24 {21:25}
Good News Translation
He does not neglect the poor or ignore their suffering; he does not turn away from them, but answers when they call for help."

New Revised Standard Version
For he did not despise or abhor the affliction of the afflicted; he did not hide his face from me, but heard when I cried to him.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD doesn't hate or despise the helpless in all of their troubles. When I cried out, he listened and did not turn away.

New American Bible
For he has not spurned or disdained the misery of this poor wretch, Did not turn away from me, but heard me when I cried out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me.

For

Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Psalm 35:10 All my bones shall say: Lord, who is like to thee? Who deliverest the poor from the hand of them that are stronger than he; the needy and the poor from them that strip him.

Psalm 69:29-34 But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up. . . .

Isaiah 50:6-9 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me. . . .

neither

Luke 23:46 And Jesus crying with a loud voice, said: Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And saying this, he gave up the ghost.

but

Psalm 22:2 O my God, I shall cry by day, and thou wilt not hear: and by night, and it shall not be reputed as folly in me.

Psalm 34:6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him: and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psalm 116:3-6 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow: . . .

Psalm 118:5 In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

Context
The Psalm of the Cross
23Ye that fear the Lord, praise him: all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him. 24Let all the seed of Israel fear him: because he hath not slighted nor despised the supplication of the poor man. Neither hath he turned away his face from me: and when I cried to him he heard me.25With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.…
Cross References
Hebrews 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

Job 36:5
God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty.

Psalm 27:9
Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.

Psalm 31:22
But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.

Psalm 66:20
Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

Psalm 69:17
And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.

Psalm 69:33
For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.

Psalm 102:2
Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily.

Psalm 102:17
He hath had regard to the prayer of the humble: and he hath not despised their petition.

Jonah 2:2
And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish.

Psalm 22:23
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