“My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.”
My soul waits for the Lord more than sentries wait for the morning, more than sentries for the morning. The simile comparing soul's waiting to watchmen's longing for dawn reinforces both intensity and inevitability of hope's realization. Sentries wait through darkness for certainty that morning will come; similarly, the faithful soul waits through spiritual darkness for assured arrival of God's presence and mercy. The doubling of the simile emphasizes the depths of yearning and the constancy of faith. Watchmen serve no purpose if dawn never comes; they wait because daybreak is certain. The faithful wait for God with equivalent assurance that His mercy is as inevitable and reliable as sunrise.
Church Fathers on Psalms 130:6
1. “Out of the deep have I called unto You, O Lord: Lord, hear my voice” Psalm 129:1. Jonas cried from the deep; from the whale's belly. Jonah 2:2 He was not only beneath the waves, but also in the entrails of the beast; nevertheless, those waves and that body prevented not his prayer from reaching God, and the beast's belly could not contain the voice of his prayer It penetrated all things, it burst through all things, it reached the ears of God: if indeed we ought to say…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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