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Psalm 130
Chapter summary coming soon.
Verse 1. A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!
Verse 2. O Lord, hear my voice; let Your ears be attentive to my plea for mercy.
Verse 3. If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
Verse 4. But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.
Verse 5. I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
Verse 6. My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.
Verse 7. O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.