The Message Bible MSG
World English Bible WEB
1 Help, God - the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help!
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<<A Song of Ascents. >> Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
2 Listen hard! Open your ears! Listen to my cries for mercy.
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Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
3 If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings, who would stand a chance?
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If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, 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 there is forgiveness with you, Therefore you are 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 Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
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 longs for the Lord more than watchmen long 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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Israel, hope in Yahweh, For with Yahweh there is lovingkindness. With him is abundant redemption.
8 No doubt about it - he'll redeem Israel, buy back Israel from captivity to sin.
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He will redeem Israel from all their sins.
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