Hope in the LORD’S Forgiving Love.

A Song of Ascents.

1Out of the depths I have cried to You, LORD.

2Lord, hear my voice!

Let Your ears be attentive

To the sound of my pleadings.

3If You, [a]LORD, were to keep account of guilty deeds,

Lord, who could stand?

4But there is forgiveness with You,

So that You may be [b]revered.

5I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,

And I [c]wait for His word.

6My soul waits in hope for the Lord

More than the watchmen for the morning;

Yes, more than the watchmen for the morning.

7Israel, wait for the LORD;

For with the LORD there is mercy,

And with Him is abundant redemption.

8And He will redeem Israel

From all his guilty deeds.