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description: "Title. A Song of degrees. Same as 120. See App-67 .  depths. Symbolical of distress. Compare Psalms 42:7 ; Psalms 66:12 ; Psalms 69:2 .  LORD *. One of t"
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**Title. A Song of degrees.** Same as 120. See App-67 .
**depths.** Symbolical of distress. Compare [Psalms 42:7](../../../kjv/psalms/42/7) ; [Psalms 66:12](../../../kjv/psalms/66/12) ; [Psalms 69:2](../../../kjv/psalms/69/2) .

**LORD *.** One of the 134 places where the *Sopherim* altered Jehovah to Adonai. See App-32 . So also verses: [Psalms 130:3](../../../kjv/psalms/130/3) ; [Psalms 130:6](../../../kjv/psalms/130/6) .
**ears** . Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .

**But** = For; or Because; corresponding with [Psalms 130:7](../../../kjv/psalms/130/7) .
**forgiveness** = the forgiveness: viz. that which Heze-kiah gave thanks for in [Isaiah 38:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/38/17) .

**soul.** Hebrew. *nephesh* . App-13 .
**His word:** as sent to Hezekiah by Jehovah through Isaiah.

**watch.** Hebrew. *shamar* = to keep = observe. An astronomical word, as in [Psalms 19:11](../../../kjv/psalms/19/11) . Compare [Psalms 105:45](../../../kjv/psalms/105/45) ; [Psalms 107:43](../../../kjv/psalms/107/43) ; [Psalms 119:34](../../../kjv/psalms/119/34) . Omit the italics, note the Figure of speech *Epizeuxis.* App-6 , and render: "More than watchers for the morning [while] watching for the morning. "

**mercy** = lovingkindness, or grace.
**plenteous redemption.** Not only from the king of Assyria ([Isaiah 37](../../../kjv/isaiah/37) ), but from "the king of terrors". redemption. Hebrew. *padah.* See notes on [Exodus 13:13](../../../kjv/exodus/13/13) .

**redeem.** Same as [Psalms 130:7](../../../kjv/psalms/130/7) .
**iniquities.** Hebrew. *'avah.* App-44 . ([Isaiah 38](../../../kjv/isaiah/38) .)

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