“Accept an additional testimony from the eighty-seventh psalm [LXX], where Christ speaks in the prophets—for he who then spoke afterwards came among us: "O Lord, the God of my salvation: I have cried in the day and in the night before you"; and subsequently, "I am become as a man without help, free among the dead." He…”
Cyril of Jerusalem, 4th c. — Catechetical Lecture 14:8
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1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
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— Psalms 88:1 —
2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.