“Christ has heard the prayer of his own servants and has brought us out from the pit of misery and from the mire of dregs. We were drowning there; our whole flesh was clinging to the mire, trapped in the whirlpool of our sins. Our soul was powerless to save itself; fallen and ruined as it was by the multiplicity and dr…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic Psalms
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2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
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1I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
— Psalms 40:2 —
3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.