O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.
All we ask is that the Lord will hear us; whether He answers is His to decide by infinite wisdom. Even silent sorrow has a voice He will hear if it cries to His ear, the weeping, the confusion, the broken prayer all reach Him. When words fail, let us entreat Him to hear what we have already prayed.
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The depths are not mere spiritual distress but deep outward affliction where the poet sinks as in waters. He cries importunately for God's hearing, though God hears all things by nature; faith requires the prayer itself. If God preserved iniquities and kept them in remembrance, nothing could stand against His punitive justice, yet He does not act with such legal stringency.
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Commenting on Psalm 130:2-4
If God should mark iniquities with His eye of vindictive justice, keeping them sealed in His remembrance and bringing them out as charges, no man's righteousness, repentance, or tears would avail. Not one soul could stand before Him; all are sinners, and all our defenses would fail utterly.
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