“"Let my prayer come in before thee." "Into thy hands, Father, I commend my spirit." "Let my prayer come in before thee. Incline thine ear to my petition." Where are the anthropomorphites, who suppose that God has bodily members? "Incline thine ear, O God." It is the voice of the Son to the Father, speaking in our pers…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 65, on Psalm 87 (Alternate Series)
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2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
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1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
— Psalms 88:2 —
3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: