A penitential psalm, but above all, a prayer of trust in God.
① 1Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord,
2O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears pay attention
to the voice of my supplication.
3If you should mark our evil,
O Lord, who could stand?
4But with you is forgiveness,
and for that you are revered.
5I waited for the Lord, my soul waits,
and I put my hope in his word.
6My soul expects the Lord
more than watchmen the dawn.
7O Israel, hope in the Lord,
for with him is unfailing love
and with him full deliverance.
8He will deliver Israel
from all its sins.
- The prayer during a long expectation. Years of a human life, generations perhaps in the life of a nation. Have we already asked for twenty years?
I waited for the Lord; I put my hope in his word. It was true for the Jews expecting national liberation, it is also valid for us: have we received and are we enjoying all that God has promised us?
All has been given us in hope. As the watchman waits for the dawn, so the believer waits for a coming of Christ – the coming that she longs for.
