Hebrew Names Version HNV
The Message Bible MSG
1 <<A Ma`alot Song. >> Out of the depths I have cried to you, LORD.
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Help, God - the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help!
2 Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
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Listen hard! Open your ears! Listen to my cries for mercy.
3 If you, the LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
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If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings, who would stand a chance?
4 But there is forgiveness with you, Therefore you are 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. I 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 My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long 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 Yisra'el, hope in the LORD, For with the LORD there is lovingkindness. With him is abundant 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 Yisra'el from all their sins.
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No doubt about it - he'll redeem Israel, buy back Israel from captivity to sin.
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