“"I have been made sad in my exercise, and have been troubled" [Psalm 55:2]. Where made sad, where troubled? "In my exercise," he says. Of evil men, whom he suffers, he has made mention, and the same suffering of evil men he has called his "exercise." Think ye not that without profit there are evil men in this world, a…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 55
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2Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
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1Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
— Psalms 55:2 —
3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.