O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.
Ver. 2. O thou that hearest prayer] And art thereby known to be the true God, 1 Kings 18:38,39, and no such dull deity as the heathens worshipped, Isaiah 45:16; Isaiah 45:19 Micah 7:17,18. O happy we that have to deal with such a prayer hearing, sin pardoning God! Psalms 65:3. Basil compareth prayer to a chain, the one end whereof is linked to God's ear, and the other to man's tongue.
Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus.
Unto thee shall all flesh come] And well they may, since he keepeth open house; his mercy doors are ever wide open, as were the doors of the Aediles, or city chamberlains in Rome, that all who had occasion of complaint might have free access unto them at any time. A good housekeeper is seldom without company. Why ply we not the throne of grace upon such encouragement? Why, since we are not straitened in God, are we straitened in our own bowels? Why make we not ourselves happy by asking, since we may have but what we will of God, even all that heaven and his grace can afford us?