1. Hear the right, O Lord. He that has the worst cause makes
the most noise; hence the oppressed soul is apprehensive that its voice may be
drowned, and therefore pleads in this one verse for a hearing no less than
three times. The troubled heart craves for the ear of the great Judge,
persuaded that with him to hear is to redress. If our God could not or would
not hear us, our state would be deplorable indeed; and yet some set such small
store by the mercy-seat that God does not hear them for the simple reason that
they neglect to plead. There is more fear that we will not hear the Lord than
that the Lord will not hear us. The right. It is well if our case is
good in itself and can be urged as a right one, for right shall never be
wronged by our righteous Judge; but if our suit be marred by our infirmities,
it is a great privilege that we may make mention of the righteousness of our Lord
Jesus, which always prevails on high. If my wrongs clamor against me with great
force and fury, I will pray the Lord to hear that still louder and mightier
voice of the right, and the rights of his dear Son. Attend unto my cry.
This shows the vehemence and earnestness of the petitioner; he is no mere
talker, he weeps and laments. A real, hearty, bitter, piteous cry might almost
melt a rock; there can be no fear about its prevailing with our Father. A cry
is our earliest utterance, and in many ways the most natural of human sounds;
if our prayer should like the infant’s cry be more natural than intelligent,
and more earnest than elegant, it will be none the less eloquent with God.
There is a mighty power in a child’s cry to prevail with a parent’s heart. Giveear unto my prayer. Some repetitions are not vain. The reduplication here
used is neither superstition nor tautology, but is like the repeated blow of a
hammer hitting the same nail on the head to fix it the more effectually. Thatgoeth not out of feigned lips. Lips of deceit are detestable to man and
much more to God. Our sincerity in prayer has no merit in it, any more than the
earnestness of a mendicant in the street; but at the same time the Lord has
regard to it, through Jesus, and will not long refuse his ear to an honest and
fervent petitioner.
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