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