O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob. [Selah
O Jehovah, God of Hosts, hear my prayer, Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Jehovah,God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, OGod of Jacob. Selah.
Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
Voices2
Ver. 8. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer. Give me to go up to thy house, or if I may not do so, yet let my cry be heard. Thou listenest to the united supplications of thy saints, but do not shut out my solitary petition, unworthy though I be. Give ear, O God of Jacob. Though Jehovah of hosts, thou art also the covenant God of solitary pleaders like Jacob; regard thou, then, my plaintive supplication.
He has an eye to the Mediator; for of him I rather understand those words, Look upon the face of thy Messiah, thy anointed one, for of his anointing David spoke, Ps. xlv. In all our addresses to God we must desire that he would look upon the face of Christ, accept us for his sake, and be well-pleased with us in him.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches3
Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.
O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 59:5O LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, rouse Yourself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah
leads to
The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
Let death seize them by surprise; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evil is with them in their homes.
A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them…
It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
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