“I pour out my prayer in his sight. He said it more expressively: I pour out my whole heart in the sight of the Lord — just as someone might confess his wound to a doctor, and tell him all the sufferings he has, so that the doctor may thus apply the cure to him. I declare my tribulation before him. This is the tribulat…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 52, on Psalm 141
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2I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
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1I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
— Psalms 142:2 —
3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
4I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.