Psalm 130:1

Awaiting Redemption

¹ Out of the depths [of distress] I have cried to You, O Lord.
²
Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive
To the voice of my supplications.

Our Help

Jehovah

Psalm 42:7

Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

Psalm 18:4-6

The cords of death surrounded me,
And the streams of ungodliness and torrents of destruction terrified me.

Psalm 18:16

He reached from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.

Psalm 25:16-18

Turn to me [Lord] and be gracious to me,
For I am alone and afflicted.

Psalm 40:2

He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.

Psalm 69:1-2

Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life [they have come up to my neck].

Psalm 69:14-15

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink;
Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep waters.

Psalm 71:20

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive and renew me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Psalm 88:6-7

You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.

Psalm 116:3-4

The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.

Psalm 121:1

I will lift up my eyes to the hills [of Jerusalem]—
From where shall my help come?

Psalm 122:1

I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Psalm 123:1

Unto you I lift up my eyes,
O You who are enthroned in the heavens!

Psalm 124:1

“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,”
Let Israel now say,

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in and rely on the Lord [with confident expectation]
Are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but remains forever.

Psalm 126:1

When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion (Jerusalem),
We were like those who dream [it seemed so unreal].

Psalm 127:1

Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.

Psalm 128:1

Blessed [happy and sheltered by God’s favor] is everyone who fears the Lord [and worships Him with obedience],
Who walks in His ways and lives according to His commandments.

Psalm 129:1

“Many times they have persecuted me (Israel) from my youth,”
Let Israel now say,

Lamentations 3:53-55

They silenced me in the pit
And placed a stone over me.

Jonah 2:2-4

and said,

“I called out of my trouble and distress to the Lord,
And He answered me;
Out of the belly of Sheol I cried for help,
And You heard my voice.

Hebrews 5:7

In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will].