Words, groans, cries
Notice the progression:
1. God hears the words of my prayer, the things I say out load.
2. He discerns my groaning--the expressions that don't quite make it into the form of words, the inner meditations and thoughts of my heart
3. The sound of my cry--like a mother knows her baby from another simply by the sound of its cry, so God recognizes my prayer from others, beyond words, beyond even groaning, simply by the sound of my crying.
1. God hears the words of my prayer, the things I say out load.
2. He discerns my groaning--the expressions that don't quite make it into the form of words, the inner meditations and thoughts of my heart
3. The sound of my cry--like a mother knows her baby from another simply by the sound of its cry, so God recognizes my prayer from others, beyond words, beyond even groaning, simply by the sound of my crying.
