Psalms 85:8

Here, like another prophet, the man of God, having given in his petitions, now stands on his watch-tower, to hear the Lord's answer. Reader, so should you and I do, and not like the ostrich of the wilderness, leave our prayers without looking after them, as she leaves her eggs, unconcerned and unconscious whether they are ever made productive. And the reason is very obvious: God will speak. But if they are gone away from the mercy-seat, is not this their folly? How can they then know what the Lord hath spoken?