“Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;”
The prayer's urgency: "Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry." The supplicant begs for God's attention, using traditional language of petition. Yet the desperation in the tone suggests that such prayers have gone unanswered.
Church Fathers on Psalms 88:2
1. The Title of this eighty-seventh Psalm contains a fresh subject for enquiry: the words occurring here, “for Melech to respond,” being nowhere else found. We have already given our opinion on the meaning of the titles Psalmus Cantici and Canticum Psalmi: and the words, “sons of Core,” are constantly repeated, and have often been explained: so also “to the end;” but what comes next in this title is peculiar. For “Melech” we may translate into Latin “for the chorus,” for…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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