“O Lord, I have cried to you, hear me. Moses was standing with the people, and Pharaoh was pursuing behind his back, and on every side there was distress for him. At that time he wept to God, and immediately God said to him: 'Why do you cry out to me?' While he was praying in silence, he was heard; yet Scripture does n…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 51, on Psalm 140
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1Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
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— Psalms 141:1 —
2Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
3Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.