Psalms 53:4
O God, hear my prayer: give ear to the words of my mouth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Deus, exaudi orationem meam ; auribus percipe verba oris mei.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὁ θεός, εἰσάκουσον τῆς προσευχῆς μου, ἐνώτισαι τὰ ῥήματα τοῦ στόματός μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 54:4
- אֱ֭לֹהִים שְׁמַ֣ע תְּפִלָּתִ֑י הַ֝אֲזִ֗ינָה לְאִמְרֵי פִֽי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LIV
5. “O God, hearken to my prayer, in Thy ears receive the words of my mouth” ( ver. 2 ).…To Thee may my prayer attain, driven forth and darted out from the desire of Thy eternal blessings: to Thy ears I send it forth, aid it that it may reach, lest it fall short in the middle of the way, and fainting as it were it fall down. But even if there result not to me now the good things which I ask, I am secured nevertheless that hereafter they will come. For even in the case of transgressions a certain man is said to have asked of God, and not to have been hearkened to for his good. For privations of this world had inspired him to prayer, and being set in temporal tribulations he had wished that temporal tribulations should pass away, and there should return the flower of grass; and he saith, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” The very voice of Christ it is, but for His members’ sake. …