Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
The verse is a cry of distress and complaint directed to God, in which the speaker pleads to be attended to and heard while mourning and making a noise in trouble. As part of the book of Psalms, it belongs among prayers and songs given to teach people to pour out the soul to God and to commune with Him. Its setting is human wickedness and God's just anger against sin, calling for the just punishment of those who persist incorrigibly in wrongdoing, while at the same time revealing His mercy and loving-kindness.
It warns of spiritual danger in seeking relief for need through worldly pleasures and sinful courses. It expresses Christ's earnest appeal to be heard in distress, mourning and crying out amid His complaint.
It shows Christ in His humiliation as substitute for man, taking man's weaknesses, infirmities, and sins so fully as to identify Himself with man in all failings and sufferings. With that weight upon Him He pours out His soul in agony for God's help while feeling Himself brought very low. Having taken Jacob's sins upon Himself, He feels Himself to be what God called Jacob, a worm, and yet He pleads the very promises God made concerning Jacob, revealing the greatness of His sacrifice.
The verse is a cry of distress and complaint directed to God, in which the speaker pleads to be attended to and heard while mourning and making a noise in trouble. As part of the book of Psalms, it belongs among prayers and songs given to teach people to pour out the soul to God and to commune with Him. Its setting is human wickedness and God's just anger against sin, calling for the just punishment of those who persist incorrigibly in wrongdoing, while at the same time revealing His mercy and loving-kindness.
It warns of spiritual danger in seeking relief for need through worldly pleasures and sinful courses. It expresses Christ's earnest appeal to be heard in distress, mourning and crying out amid His complaint.
It shows Christ in His humiliation as substitute for man, taking man's weaknesses, infirmities, and sins so fully as to identify Himself with man in all failings and sufferings. With that weight upon Him He pours out His soul in agony for God's help while feeling Himself brought very low. Having taken Jacob's sins upon Himself, He feels Himself to be what God called Jacob, a worm, and yet He pleads the very promises God made concerning Jacob, revealing the greatness of His sacrifice.