English Standard Version ESV
The Message Bible MSG
1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!
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Help, God - the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help!
2 O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
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Listen hard! Open your ears! Listen to my cries for mercy.
3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who 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, that you may be feared.
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As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, and that's why you're worshiped.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;
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I pray to God - my life a prayer - and wait for what he'll say and do.
6 my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the 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 O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful 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 And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
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No doubt about it - he'll redeem Israel, buy back Israel from captivity to sin.
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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.