The Message Bible MSG
King James Version KJV
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 have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
2 Listen hard! Open your ears! Listen to my cries for mercy.
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Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
3 If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings, who would stand a chance?
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If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
4 As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, and that's why you're worshiped.
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But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest 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 doth wait, and in his word do 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 waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch 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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Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
8 No doubt about it - he'll redeem Israel, buy back Israel from captivity to sin.
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And he shall 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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