New Living Translation NLT
The Message Bible MSG
1 From the depths of despair, O LORD, I call for your help.
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Help, God - the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help!
2 Hear my cry, O Lord. Pay attention to my prayer.
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Listen hard! Open your ears! Listen to my cries for mercy.
3 LORD, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive?
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If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings, who would stand a chance?
4 But you offer forgiveness, that we might learn to fear you.
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As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, and that's why you're worshiped.
5 I am counting on the LORD ; yes, I am counting on him. I have put my 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 I long for the Lord more than sentries long for the dawn, yes, more than sentries long for the dawn.
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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 unfailing love. His redemption overflows.
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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 himself will redeem Israel from every kind of sin.
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No doubt about it - he'll redeem Israel, buy back Israel from captivity to sin.