Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh.
- BSB A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!
- NKJV Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord;
- NASB Out of the depths I have cried to You, Lord.
- NLT From the depths of despair, O Lord, I call for your help.
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Quick answer
From the depths of distress, the psalmist cries out to Yahweh. It models honest prayer to God from the lowest places of life.
Overview
This Song of Ascents, a beloved penitential psalm, begins with a cry out of the depths, an image of overwhelming trouble and guilt. The sufferer turns not inward but upward to the Lord. Such crying from the depths finds its answer in Christ, who descended into death to rescue those who call on Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 22
- Ps 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- Heb 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
- Jonah 2:2–4And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
- Ps 69:14–15Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
- Ps 25:16–18Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
- Ps 71:20Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
- Ps 69:1–2Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
- Ps 116:3–4The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
- Lam 3:53–55They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
- Ps 40:2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
- Ps 18:16He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
- Ps 128:1Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
- Ps 123:1Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
- Ps 129:1Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
- Ps 125:1They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
- Ps 88:6–7Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
- Ps 122:1I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
- Ps 18:4–6The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
- Ps 124:1If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
- Ps 121:1I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
- Ps 127:1Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
- Ps 126:1When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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