Out of the Depths
A Song of Ascents.
From the depths, a prayer resting on one question put to his Father: if you kept a record of sins, who could stand? Forgiveness is what makes reverence possible at all. The waiting is compared to night watchmen counting the hours until morning.
130 1Out of the depths I cry to you, my Father.
2Sovereign Father, hear my voice; listen closely to my pleas for mercy.
3If you, my Father, kept a record of sins, Sovereign Father, who could stand? 4But with you there is forgiveness, so that you may be feared.
5I wait for my Father; my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. 6My soul waits for the Sovereign Father more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
7Israel, put your hope in our Father, for with our Father is covenant love, and with him is abundant redemption. 8And he himself will redeem Israel from all Israel's sins. a a v8 The Father's promise to redeem his people from all their sins is fulfilled in Jesus, who was named to save his people from their sins.
