I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
The one who waits patiently for the Lord is the redeemed. That patient waiting is not silent passivity but is joined with crying out to Him in prayer. The Lord bends toward the waiting petitioner, inclines Himself to him, and hears his cry.
He does not merely hear the cry but answers it. That answered prayer is to be testified with thanks, while working in harmony with prayer by fulfilling one's duties. The verse is the redeemed soul's gratitude to the sin-pardoning Saviour. In what follows, this answered cry is pictured as rescue from a deep, unstable pit and miry clay, being set securely on a rock, and receiving a new song of praise to God.
The one who waits patiently for the Lord is the redeemed. That patient waiting is not silent passivity but is joined with crying out to Him in prayer. The Lord bends toward the waiting petitioner, inclines Himself to him, and hears his cry.
He does not merely hear the cry but answers it. That answered prayer is to be testified with thanks, while working in harmony with prayer by fulfilling one's duties. The verse is the redeemed soul's gratitude to the sin-pardoning Saviour. In what follows, this answered cry is pictured as rescue from a deep, unstable pit and miry clay, being set securely on a rock, and receiving a new song of praise to God.