Psalms Chapter 55 verse 2 Holy Bible
Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
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Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;
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Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,
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Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;
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To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.
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Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
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Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Attend unto me, and hear me. A very special need is indicated by these four petitions to be heard (vers. 1, 2). I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise; rather, I wander in my musing, and moan aloud. "I wander," i.e. "from one sad thought to another" (Kay); and, unable to constrain myself, I give vent to meanings. Orientals are given to open displays of their grief (Herod., 8:99; AEschylus, 'Persae,' passim).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) I mourn.--A verb found in this form only in three other passages, always with the idea of restlessness--e.g., Genesis 27:40, of the roving life of a Bedouin; Jeremiah 2:31, of moral restlessness; Hosea 12:1, of political instability. Here it may either indicate that bodily restlessness which often serves as an outlet of grief:"Hard mechanic exercise,Like dull narcotics, numbing pain,"or the distracted state of the mind itself.And make a noise.--Better, and must roar, the form of the verb expressing the compulsion which the sufferer feels to give vent to his feelings in groans and murmurs. (See Note on Psalm 42:5.) . . .
