Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
David confesses he was seized with extreme bitterness that forced him to break forth in complaint and vehemence he never intended. He wrestled with great effort to resist despair, and his prayers show the depth of his trouble of mind.
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Commenting on Psalm 39:1-13
Hear my prayer, do not drown it out with Your strokes. A cry is more vehement than prayer; tears are the irresistible weapons of weakness, and they speak louder than ten thousand tongues. Like You, my Lord, I am a stranger among men, yet You treat us poor aliens with unbounded compassion.
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When the world yields no solid satisfaction, we must look heaven-ward to God. David abandons all expectation from earthly things, nothing to wish for, nothing to hope for from this earth, and takes hold of happiness in God alone, for creature-confidences fail but He remains.
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Commenting on Psalm 39:7-13