The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Message Bible MSG
1 A song of ascents. By David: ADONAI, I call to you from the depths;
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Help, God - the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help!
2 hear my cry, Adonai! Let your ears pay attention to the sound of my pleading.
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Listen hard! Open your ears! Listen to my cries for mercy.
3 Yah, if you kept a record of sins, who, Adonai, could stand?
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If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings, who would stand a chance?
4 But with you there is forgiveness, so that you will be feared.
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As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, and that's why you're worshiped.
5 I wait longingly for ADONAI; I put my hope in his word.
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I pray to God - my life a prayer - and wait for what he'll say and do.
6 Everything in me waits for Adonai more than guards on watch wait for morning, more than guards on watch wait for morning.
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My life's on the line before God, my Lord, waiting and watching till morning, waiting and watching till morning.
7 Isra'el, put your hope in ADONAI! For grace is found with ADONAI, and with him is unlimited redemption.
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O Israel, wait and watch for God - with God's arrival comes love, with God's arrival comes generous redemption.
8 He will redeem Isra'el from all their wrongdoings.
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No doubt about it - he'll redeem Israel, buy back Israel from captivity to sin.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.