“Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy.”
Psalm 86 opens with an urgent prayer for divine attention: "Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy." The request for God to incline an ear emphasizes the need for God to listen carefully and respond. The self-description as poor and needy establishes the supplicant's vulnerability and utter dependence on God's mercy.
Church Fathers on Psalms 86:1
1. No greater gift could God have given to men than in making His Word, by which He created all things, their Head, and joining them to Him as His members: that the Son of God might become also the Son of man, one God with the Father, one Man with men; so that when we speak to God in prayer for mercy, we do not separate the Son from Him; and when the Body of the Son prays, it separates not its Head from itself: and it is one Saviour of His Body, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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