“But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.”
The plea that God would answer in steadfast love and respond according to truth articulates the request for divine intervention based on God's covenantal character. The reference to the truthfulness of God's response indicates that the psalmist trusts that God will respond appropriately and justly. This verse transitions from lament at suffering to petition for divine action.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:13
1. We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed has spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, has leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: Genesis 9:19 for from East and West and North and South shall come they that shall sit down with the Patriarchs, Matthew 8:11 while those shall have been…
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