Psalms 54:2
Hear, O God, my prayer, and despise not my supplication:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Exaudi, Deus, orationem meam, et ne despexeris deprecationem meam :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Ἐνώτισαι, ὁ θεός, τὴν προσευχήν μου, καὶ μὴ ὑπερίδῃς τὴν δέησίν μου,
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 55:2
- הַאֲזִ֣ינָה אֱ֭לֹהִים תְּפִלָּתִ֑י וְאַל תִּ֝תְעַלַּ֗ם מִתְּחִנָּתִֽי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LV
4. “Hear Thou, O God, my entreaty, and despise not my prayer: give heed unto me, and hearken unto me” ( ver. 1 ). Of one earnest, anxious, of one set in tribulation, are these words. He is praying, suffering many things, from evil yearning to be delivered: it remaineth that we hear in what evil he is, and when he beginneth to speak, let us acknowledge there ourselves to be; in order that the tribulation being shared, we may conjoin prayer. “I have been made sad in my exercise, and have been troubled” ( ver. 2 ). Where made sad, where troubled? “In my exercise,” he saith. Of evil men, whom he suffereth, he hath made mention, and the same suffering of evil men he hath called his “exercise.” Think ye not that without profit there are evil men in this world, and that no good God maketh of them. …