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Psalms 61:1 — King James Version← Study notes

Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.


Psalms 61:1Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 61:14 words
HebrewMeaning
לַ/מְנַצֵּ֬חַlamənaṣēḥa
to the choirmasterpronH5329
chief musician · oversee · set forward
עַֽלʿal
onpronH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
נְגִינַ֬תnəgiynat
a stringed instrumentnounH5058
musick · Neginoth · song
לְ/דָוִֽדlədāwid
of DavidpronH1732
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 61:1

1. The title of it does not detain us. For it is Unto the end, in hymns, to David himself. “In hymns,” to wit in praises. “Unto the end,” to wit unto Christ....But the voice in this Psalm (if we are among the members of Him, and in the Body, even as upon His exhortation we have the boldness to trust) we ought to acknowledge to be our own, not that of any foreigner. But I have not so called it our own, as if it were of those only that are now in presence; but our own, as being…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 61
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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