“Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.”
The plea that God would answer speedily establishes urgency: the psalmist cannot wait for distant deliverance. The affirmation that God's steadfast love is good indicates trust in the character that should move God to act. This verse reiterates the petition with increasing urgency and emphasis on divine character as the motivation for rescue.
Church Fathers on Psalms 69:16
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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