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Psalm 130 · Book Five

A song of ascents.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

Song of Ascents · Penitential

About this psalm

Eight verses from the bottom. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Then the question nobody can survive — If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? — and its answer: But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. The waiting in it is compared to men on a night watch waiting for the morning.

Read it when your own sin is the thing you are drowning in.

My psalms

One verse at a time, slowly

¹Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.²Lord, hear my voice:let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.³If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?⁴But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.⁵I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.⁶My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning:I say, more than they that watch for the morning.⁷Let Israel hope in the LORD:for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.⁸And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

A hymn built on this psalm

Out of the Depths I Cry to Thee Martin Luther; tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1524. Words, chords in any key, and the story. Free to sing.

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