Holy Scripture

Psalms 87:4

A church father on this verse
“Pass now, pray, to the others who were saved by repentance. Perhaps even among the women someone will say, "I have committed fornication and adultery. I have defiled my body with every excess. Can there be salvation for me?" Fix your eyes, woman, on Rahab, and look for salvation for yourself too. For if she who openly…”
Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th c. — Catechetical Lecture 2:9

Source: Septuagint

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4For my soul is filled with troubles, And my life has drawn nigh to Hades.

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2O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried by day and in the night before thee.

3Let my prayer come in before thee; Incline thine ear to my supplication, O Lord.

— Psalms 87:4 —

5I have been reckoned with them that go down to the pit; I became as a man without help;

6free among the dead, As the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; Whom thou rememberest no more; And they are rejected from thy hand.

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