Psalms 60:2
Hear, O God, my supplication: be attentive to my prayer,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Exaudi, Deus, deprecationem meam ; intende orationi meæ.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Εἰσάκουσον τῆς δεήσεώς μου, πρόσχες τῆς προσευχῆς μου.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 61:2
- שִׁמְעָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹהִים רִנָּתִ֑י הַ֝קְשִׁ֗יבָה תְּפִלָּתִֽי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXI
2. “Hearken, O God, to my supplication, give heed to my prayer” ( ver. 1 ). Who saith? He, as if One. See whether one: “From the ends of the earth to Thee I have cried, while my heart was being vexed” ( ver. 2 ). Now therefore not one: but for this reason one, because Christ is One, of whom all we are the members. For what one man crieth from the ends of the earth? There crieth not from the ends of the earth any but that inheritance, of which hath been said to the Son Himself, “Demand of Me, and I will give to Thee the nations for Thine inheritance, and for Thy possession the boundaries of the earth.” This therefore Christ’s possession, this Christ’s inheritance, this Christ’s Body, this Christ’s one Church, this the Unity which we are, is crying from the ends of the earth.…But wherefore have I cried this thing? “While my heart was being vexed.” He showeth himself to be throughout all na …