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Psalms 130:2
Lord, hear my voice, the appeal being to the All-powerful to grant deliverance; let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications, in a careful and merciful attention to his pleading.
Lord, hear my voice, the appeal being to the All-powerful to grant deliverance; let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications, in a careful and merciful attention to his pleading.
Verse Psalms 130:2. _LORD, HEAR MY VOICE_] They could have no helper but God, and to him they earnestly seek for relief....
LORD, HEAR MY VOICE - This is the prayer; this is what he cried. It is the language of earnest pleading. LET THINE EARS BE ATTENTIVE TO THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS - Do not turn away from me; do no...
PSALM 120-134 The Psalms of Degrees Fifteen brief Psalms follow, called songs of degrees, or, ascents. They were in all probability used by Israel going up to Jerusalem three times a year to celebrat...
CXXX. WAITING FOR GOD. Psalms 130:1. depths refers primarily to God's exaltation in heaven, man's position far below on earth. Psalms 130:4. The fear of Yahweh was to pious Jews the sum of religion....
LORD *. One of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ altered Jehovah to Adonai. See App-32. So also verses: Psalms 130:3; Psalms 130:6. EARS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6....
DISCOURSE: 722 GOD’S MERCY AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO PRAYER Psalms 130:1. _Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication...
PSALMS 130 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Ransomed out of the Depths. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 130:1-2, The Fact of Supplication. Narrated. Stanza II., Psalms 130:3-4, The Terms of the Supplication Stated.
Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. LORD, HEAR MY VOICE; LET THINE EARS BE ATTENTIVE TO THE VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS () - Hebrew, Adonai. As Yahweh...
The _De Profundis_—a song of redemption from trouble through faith in God. Probably a very late Ps. The Ps. is antiphonal. First voice (Psalms 130:1), Second voice (3, 4), First voice (5, 6), Chorus ...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ PSALMS 130 PSALMS FOR CLIMBING; PSALMS 120:134 Jesus said, "We wi
אֲדֹנָי֮ שִׁמְעָ֪ה בְ קֹ֫ולִ֥י תִּהְיֶ֣ינָה אָ֭זְנֶיךָ...
Psalms 130:1 IN a very emphatic sense this is a song of ascents, for it climbs steadily from the abyss of penitence to the summits of hope. It falls into two divisions of four verses each, of which th...
“OUT OF THE DEPTHS” Psalms 130:1-8; Psalms 131:1-3 _The cry_, Psalms 130:1-2. The word _Lord_ occurs as often as there are verses. The soul in trouble repeats again and again that precious Name,...
After the backward look there would fittingly be an inward look as the worshipper approached the place of worship. This is always a disquieting look. There is no confession here of specific sins, but...
So reward, &c. The meaning is, that according to his disposition with regard to humility, so he expected a reward in his soul to return to him, and stick as close to him as the child just weaned, whic...
Deep calleth unto deep, saith one of old. And when a poor brokenhearted sinner, from, the depths of sin, crieth to the depths of divine mercy, sweet is that frame of soul, and sure to be beard. For it...
Psalms 130 takes up another subject, of the place of which we have found clear traces before the sins of Israel as between the people and God. It is not, however, now merely legal distress. Confidence...
LORD, HEAR MY VOICE,.... His prayer, which was vocal: God is a God hearing prayer; sometimes his people think he does not hear them; but he always does, and in his own time answers; for to hear prayer...
Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. Ver. 2. _Lord, hear my voice_] _Precum exauditio identidem est precanda,_ Audience must be begged again and again; a...
_Out of the depths_ Being overwhelmed with deep distresses and terrors, and ready to despair; _have I cried unto thee_ “Like another Jonas, entombed in the whale's belly, and surrounded by all the wav...
1-4 The only way of relief for a sin-entangled soul, is by applying to God alone. Many things present themselves as diversions, many things offer themselves as remedies, but the soul finds that the L...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 130:2 Lord H136 hear H8085 (H8798) voice H6963 ears H241 attentive H7183 voice H6963 supplications H8469...
Psalms 130:1 There are deep soul-utterances here: there are the trouble and the darkness that often precede or accompany the coming to life again of the soul; there are the cries of pain and anguish...
Psalms 130 This Psalm gives us what we may call the ascent of the soul from the depths to the heights. I. We have the cry from the depths. The depths which the psalmist means are those into which the...
I will first read the Psalm through, and afterwards say a few words by way of exposition. Psalms 130:1. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attent...
Psalms 130:1. _Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD._ God's people have to go into the depths, and God's people pray in the depths, and often they pray best in the depths. The rarest pear...
Psalms 130:1. _Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD._ The most eminent of God's saints have been in the depths; wherefore, then, should I murmur if I have to endure trials? What am I that...
Psalms 130:1. _Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD._ «Sinking, sinking, sinking, drowning, dying, hope all but gone, almost everything gone, yet I have cried unto thee; with much fear, a...
CONTENTS: The Psalmist's desire toward God and his repentance before God. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: Those who cry to God out of a sincere heart when they are in the depths of despair wi...
This is one of the _penitential_ psalms, which though it have no title, appears to have been composed by David when in deep distress. Psalms 130:6. _More than they that watch for the morning._ The wor...
_Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee._ A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE The psalm should probably be regarded as antiphonal; it is composed of several stanzas which were sung responsively by different...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 130:1. This is an individual lament, expressing repentance and trust in God’s mercy. The psalm climbs from “out of the depths” of misery over one’s sin, to confession of it...
INTRODUCTION The Psalm before us, like the other pilgrim-songs, implies circumstances of bitterness; but it is, as in truth is each of them, more than a cry occasioned by outward hardship and danger....
EXPOSITION THE cry of Israel in extreme distress—apparently a Captivity song. Israel has sinned and been punished; it now acknowledges its sins, and prays for mercy and forgiveness. Towards the end (P...
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice: let your ears be attentive to the voice of my [prayers or] supplications. For if you, LORD, should start [making a list] marking...
2 Chronicles 6:40; Daniel 9:17; Isaiah 37:17; Nehemiah 1:11; Ne