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Selected Verse: Psalms 130:1 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 130:1 |
Strong Concordance |
A Song [07892] of degrees [04609]. Out of the depths [04615] have I cried [07121] unto thee, O LORD [03068]. |
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King James |
A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The penitent sinner's hope is in God's mercy only. (Psa 130:1-8)
depths--for great distress (Psa 40:2; Psa 69:3). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Out of the depths - The word rendered "depths" is from a verb - עמק ‛âmaq - which means to be deep; then, to be unsearchable; then, to make deep; and it would apply to anything low, deep, or profound, as the ocean, a pit, or a valley. The word used here occurs elsewhere only in the following places: Psa 69:2, Psa 69:14, where it is rendered "deep," applied to waters; and Isa 51:10; Eze 27:34, where it is rendered "depths." The word, as used here, would be applicable to deep affliction, dejection, or distress. It would be applicable
(a) to affliction - the depths of sorrow from loss of friends, property, or bodily suffering;
(b) sin - the depths into which the soul is plunged under the consciousness of guilt;
(c) mental trouble - low spirits - melancholy - darkness of mind - loss of comfort in religion - powerful temptation - disappointment - the anguish caused by ingratitude - or sadness of heart in view of the crimes and the sorrows of people - or grief at the coldness, the hardness, the insensibility of our friends to their spiritual condition.
From all these depths of sorrow it is our privilege to call upon the Lord; in those depths of sorrow it is proper thus to implore his help. Often he brings us into these "depths" that we may be led to call upon him; always when we are brought there, we should call upon him.
Have I cried unto thee, O Lord - Or rather, "do I now invoke thee," or call earnestly upon thee. The language does not refer so much to the past as the present. I now cry for mercy; I now implore thy blessing. The condition is that of one who in deep sorrow, or under deep conviction for sin, pleads earnestly that God would have compassion on him. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The depths (מעמקּים) are not the depths of the soul, but the deep outward and inward distress in which the poet is sunk as in deep waters (Psa 69:3, Psa 69:15). Out of these depths he cries to the God of salvation, and importunately prays Him who rules all things and can do all things to grant him a compliant hearing (שׁמע בּ, Gen 21:12; Gen 26:13; Gen 30:6, and other passages). God heard indeed even in Himself, as being the omniscient One, the softest and most secret as well as the loudest utterance; but, as Hilary observes, fides officium suum exsequitur, ut Dei auditionem roget, ut qui per naturam suam audit per orantis precem dignetur audire. In this sense the poet prays that His ears may be turned קשּׁבות (duller collateral form of קשּׁב, to be in the condition of arrectae aures), with strained attention, to his loud and urgent petition (Psa 28:2). His life hangs upon the thread of the divine compassion. If God preserves iniquities, who can stand before Him?! He preserves them (שׁמר) when He puts them down to one (Psa 32:2) and keeps them in remembrance (Gen 37:11), or, as it is figuratively expressed in Job 14:17, sealed up as it were in custody in order to punish them when the measure is full. The inevitable consequence of this is the destruction of the sinner, for nothing can stand against the punitive justice of God (Nah 1:6; Mal 3:2; Ezr 9:15). If God should show Himself as Jāh,
(Note: Eusebius on Ps 68 (67):5 observes that the Logos is called Ἴα as μορφὴν δούλον λαβὼν καὶ τάς ἀκτῖνας τῆς ἑαυτοῦ θεότητος συστείλας καὶ ὥσπερ καταδὺς ἐν τῷ σώματι. There is a similar passage in Vicentius Ciconia (1567), which we introduced into our larger Commentary on the Psalms (1859-60).)
no creature would be able to stand before Him, who is Adonaj, and can therefore carry out His judicial will or purpose (Isa 51:16). He does not, however, act thus. He does not proceed according to the legal stringency of recompensative justice. This thought, which fills up the pause after the question, but is not directly expressed, is confirmed by the following כּי, which therefore, as in Job 22:2; Job 31:18; Job 39:14; Isa 28:28 (cf. Ecc 5:6), introduces the opposite. With the Lord is the willingness to forgive (הסּליחה), in order that He may be feared; i.e., He forgives, as it is expressed elsewhere (e.g., Psa 79:9), for His Name's sake: He seeks therein the glorifying of His Name. He will, as the sole Author of our salvation, who, putting all vain-glorying to shame, causes mercy instead of justice to take its course with us (cf. Psa 51:6), be reverenced; and gives the sinner occasion, ground, and material for reverential thanksgiving and praise by bestowing "forgiveness" upon him in the plenitude of absolutely free grace. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Out of the depths - The captives in Babylon represent their condition like those who are in a prison - an abyss or deep ditch, ready to be swallowed up. |
3 I am weary [03021] of my crying [07121]: my throat [01627] is dried [02787]: mine eyes [05869] fail [03615] while I wait [03176] for my God [0430].
2 He brought me up [05927] also out of an horrible [07588] pit [0953], out of the miry [03121] clay [02916], and set [06965] my feet [07272] upon a rock [05553], and established [03559] my goings [0838].
1 A Song [07892] of degrees [04609]. Out of the depths [04615] have I cried [07121] unto thee, O LORD [03068].
2 Lord [0136], hear [08085] my voice [06963]: let thine ears [0241] be attentive [07183] to the voice [06963] of my supplications [08469].
3 If thou, LORD [03050], shouldest mark [08104] iniquities [05771], O Lord [0136], who shall stand [05975]?
4 But there is forgiveness [05547] with thee, that thou mayest be feared [03372].
5 I wait [06960] for the LORD [03068], my soul [05315] doth wait [06960], and in his word [01697] do I hope [03176].
6 My soul [05315] waiteth for the Lord [0136] more than they that watch [08104] for the morning [01242]: I say, more than they that watch [08104] for the morning [01242].
7 Let Israel [03478] hope [03176] in the LORD [03068]: for with the LORD [03068] there is mercy [02617], and with him is plenteous [07235] redemption [06304].
8 And he shall redeem [06299] Israel [03478] from all his iniquities [05771].
34 In the time [06256] when thou shalt be broken [07665] by the seas [03220] in the depths [04615] of the waters [04325] thy merchandise [04627] and all thy company [06951] in the midst [08432] of thee shall fall [05307].
10 Art thou not it which hath dried [02717] the sea [03220], the waters [04325] of the great [07227] deep [08415]; that hath made [07760] the depths [04615] of the sea [03220] a way [01870] for the ransomed [01350] to pass over [05674]?
14 Deliver [05337] me out of the mire [02916], and let me not sink [02883]: let me be delivered [05337] from them that hate [08130] me, and out of the deep [04615] waters [04325].
2 I sink [02883] in deep [04688] mire [03121], where there is no standing [04613]: I am come [0935] into deep [04615] waters [04325], where the floods [07641] overflow [07857] me.
6 Behold, thou desirest [02654] truth [0571] in the inward parts [02910]: and in the hidden [05640] part thou shalt make me to know [03045] wisdom [02451].
9 Help [05826] us, O God [0430] of our salvation [03468], for [01697] the glory [03519] of thy name [08034]: and deliver [05337] us, and purge away [03722] our sins [02403], for thy name's [08034] sake.
6 Suffer [05414] not thy mouth [06310] to cause thy flesh [01320] to sin [02398]; neither say [0559] thou before [06440] the angel [04397], that it was an error [07684]: wherefore should God [0430] be angry [07107] at thy voice [06963], and destroy [02254] the work [04639] of thine hands [03027]?
28 Bread [03899] corn is bruised [01854]; because he will not ever [05331] be threshing [0156] [01758] it, nor break [02000] it with the wheel [01536] of his cart [05699], nor bruise [01854] it with his horsemen [06571].
14 Which leaveth [05800] her eggs [01000] in the earth [0776], and warmeth [02552] them in dust [06083],
18 (For from my youth [05271] he was brought up [01431] with me, as with a father [01], and I have guided [05148] her from my mother's [0517] womb [0990];)
2 Can a man [01397] be profitable [05532] unto God [0410], as [03588] he that is wise [07919] may be profitable [05532] unto himself?
16 And I have put [07760] my words [01697] in thy mouth [06310], and I have covered [03680] thee in the shadow [06738] of mine hand [03027], that I may plant [05193] the heavens [08064], and lay the foundations [03245] of the earth [0776], and say [0559] unto Zion [06726], Thou art my people [05971].
15 O LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478], thou art righteous [06662]: for we remain [07604] yet escaped [06413], as it is this day [03117]: behold, we are before [06440] thee in our trespasses [0819]: for we cannot stand [05975] before [06440] thee because of this.
2 But who may abide [03557] the day [03117] of his coming [0935]? and who shall stand [05975] when he appeareth [07200]? for he is like a refiner's [06884] fire [0784], and like fullers [03526] ' soap [01287]:
6 Who can stand [05975] before [06440] his indignation [02195]? and who can abide [06965] in the fierceness [02740] of his anger [0639]? his fury [02534] is poured out [05413] like fire [0784], and the rocks [06697] are thrown down [05422] by him.
17 My transgression [06588] is sealed up [02856] in a bag [06872], and thou sewest up [02950] mine iniquity [05771].
11 And his brethren [0251] envied [07065] him; but his father [01] observed [08104] the saying [01697].
2 Blessed [0835] is the man [0120] unto whom the LORD [03068] imputeth [02803] not iniquity [05771], and in whose spirit [07307] there is no guile [07423].
2 Hear [08085] the voice [06963] of my supplications [08469], when I cry [07768] unto thee, when I lift up [05375] my hands [03027] toward thy holy [06944] oracle [01687].
6 And Rachel [07354] said [0559], God [0430] hath judged [01777] me, and hath also heard [08085] my voice [06963], and hath given [05414] me a son [01121]: therefore called [07121] she his name [08034] Dan [01835].
13 And the man [0376] waxed great [01431], and went [03212] forward [01980], and grew [01432] until he became [01431] very [03966] great [01431]:
12 And God [0430] said [0559] unto Abraham [085], Let it not be grievous [03415] in thy sight [05869] because of the lad [05288], and because of thy bondwoman [0519]; in all that Sarah [08283] hath said [0559] unto thee, hearken [08085] unto her voice [06963]; for in Isaac [03327] shall thy seed [02233] be called [07121].
15 Let not the waterflood [04325] [07641] overflow [07857] me, neither let the deep [04688] swallow me up [01104], and let not the pit [0875] shut [0332] her mouth [06310] upon me.
3 I am weary [03021] of my crying [07121]: my throat [01627] is dried [02787]: mine eyes [05869] fail [03615] while I wait [03176] for my God [0430].