Psalm 130

Out of the deep

Read/pray the psalm. (Full text at bottom.)

• Another Song of Ascents, another image of a starting place ‘down, and out,’ calling on God to take us up, and in—to Mount Zion and the temple.

• “Out of the deep have I called unto you, O LORD….” This reminds us…

  • … of Jonah’s prayer in the belly of the great fish, imprisoned as in the land of the dead.

  • … of the symbolic similarities between sea and Sheol.

  • … of the One who would rise from there, giving “the sign of Jonah.”

• The image continues: “My soul waits for the Lord, more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning”—new day, resurrection, redemption.

So…

• What needs redemption in your life?

• Sit with it in silence and inactivity, for a moment, waiting… until it becomes uncomfortable.

• Pray:

I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for him; 
in his word is my trust. [5]

Psalm 130
De profundis

1	Out of the deep have I called unto you, O Lord; * 
			Lord, hear my voice.
2	O let your ears consider well *
			the voice of my supplications.
3	If you, Lord, were to mark what is done amiss, * 
			O Lord, who could abide it?
4	For there is mercy with you; *
			therefore you shall be feared.
5	I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for him; *
			in his word is my trust.
6	My soul waits for the Lord, *
			more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
7	O Israel, trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, * 
			and with him is plenteous redemption;
8	And he shall redeem Israel *
			from all their sins.



New Coverdale Psalter