Psalms 142:2

2. I poured out my complaint before him The idea of profuseness, unreservedness, is given I emptied out my complaint. Nothing was kept back. So, in the next line, I showed… him my trouble. This was done “before him” literally, before his face. In the sacrificial coloring of these expressions, especially the emphatic לפנין , before his face, there is a drawing nigh to God answerable to the New Testament “coming boldly to the throne of grace,” a “drawing near” to the “holy of holies.” Hebrews 4:16; Hebrews 10:22. This earnest pouring out of complaint and prayer for mercy, before the face of God, takes also the Levitical idea of a “libation,” or “drink-offering,” poured freely upon the sacrifice of the altar, to give it flavour and acceptance. Leviticus 4:7, etc. See Isaiah 57:6