Psalm 130
The full text of Psalm 130 in the Trinity Bible Version — clear modern English, translated from the original Hebrew. Free to read.
A Song of Ascents.
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!
2 O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
6 my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.
7 O Israel, hope in the LORD!
For with the LORD there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
8 And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.
Translation notes (2)
- Psalm 130:3a The verb shamar, 'to keep' or 'to watch', ordinarily describes guarding or preserving; applied here to iniquities it means keeping a strict record of them for reckoning. The psalmist's point is that if God retained such an account, no one could survive his scrutiny.
- Psalm 130:4a Selichah (סְלִיחָה), 'forgiveness', is a rare noun, appearing elsewhere only in Nehemiah 9:17 and Daniel 9:9, always of God's pardon. The purpose clause lema'an tivvare, 'that you may be feared', makes reverence the result of forgiveness rather than of judgment: pardon, not condemnation, produces the awe that the previous verse's unanswerable question implies.
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