Psalm 5:2-4
Understand my cry: hearken to the voice of my prayer, O my King and my God: for to Thee will I pray, O Lord.
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Verse 2. Cry. Heb. “meditation.” M. — The cry of the heart, (S. Chrys.) and “the groans,” which the spirit forms within us. Rom. viii. 26. God cannot reject such prayers. If he seems inattentive, it is because we ask amiss. Jam. iv. 3. C. — He attends to the prayers of the Church, and of every faithful soul, (W.) and even exhorts sinners to come to him, that they may emerge from the abyss. H.
Verse 4. Morning. This hour of prayer is also specified, (Ps. lxii. 1. and cxviii. 147.) as that of the evening is. Ps. iv. 9, and liv. 19. We read also of noon being a time for prayer among the Jews. Acts x. 9. Daniel (vi. 10.) diligently observed these holy customs. C.