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 1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

 2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

 3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

 4 But *there is* forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

 5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

 6 My soul *waiteth* for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: *I say, more than* they that watch for the morning.*

 7 Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD *there is* mercy, and with him *is* plenteous redemption.

 8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
 
[Psalms 129](/study/psalms/129) [Psalms 131](/study/psalms/131)

## Commentary

 To verse 1
 
**1.***Out of the deep places have I cried to thee, O Jehovah!* It is to be noticed that the Prophet speaks of himself as sending forth his voice, as it were from out of a deep gulf, (118) feeling himself overwhelmed with calamities. As the miseries to which there is no prospect of a termination commonly bring despair in their train, nothing is more difficult than for persons, when involved in grievous and deep sorrow, to stir up their minds to the exercise of prayer. And it is wonderful, considering that whilst we enjoy peace and prosperity we are cold in prayer, because then our hearts are in a state of infatuated security, how in adversities, which ought to quicken us, we are still more stupefied. But the Prophet derives confidence in coming to the throne of grace from the very troubles, cares, dangers and sorrow into which he was plunged. He expresses his perplexity and the earnestness of his desire both by the word cry, and by the repetition continued in the second verse. So much the more detestable then is the barbarous ignorance of the Papist’s, in shamefully profaning this Psalm by wresting it to a purpose wholly foreign to its genuine application. To what intent do they mumble it over for the dead, if it is not that, in consequence of Satan having bewitched them, they may by their profanity extinguish a doctrine of singular utility? From the time that this Psalm was, by a forced interpretation, applied to the souls of the dead, it is very generally believed to be of no use whatever to the living, and thus the world has lost an inestimable treasure. 

(118) The depths or deep gulfs are used in Scripture as an emblem of extreme danger or calamity, whether of body or of mind. See [Psalms 69:2](/kjv/psalms/69/2). “The Papists, taking the deep as a type of purgatory, recite this Psalm in the persons of those who have died in their communion.” —*Cresswell.* To this Calvin afterwards adverts.

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