I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Cave. Of Engaddi, (Bossuet; Calmet) or Odollam. (Bellarmine) (Berthier)
Here David was a figure of Christ praying in the garden (St. Hilary)
The psalm may relate to the captives, (St. Chrysostom) or to martyrs, (St. Augustine) and to all under trial. David might recite it in the cave. (Berthier)
Voice. He did not speak aloud, for fear of being detected. (Worthington)
But the fervent prayer of the just, "is a cry to God. "(St. Hilary) (Exodus xiv. 15.) (Calmet)