Preparing for Hard Times

Hymn Psalms:

15, 24, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134

Psalm 130 (ESV)

A Song of Ascents.

1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

2 O Lord, hear my voice!

Let your ears be attentive

to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,

O Lord, who could stand?

4 But with you there is forgiveness,

that you may be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,

and in his word I hope;

6 my soul waits for the Lord

more than watchmen for the morning,

more than watchmen for the morning.

7 O Israel, hope in the Lord!

For with the Lord there is steadfast love,

and with him is plentiful redemption.

8 And he will redeem Israel

from all his iniquities.

Psalm 130:1 ESV

1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

“this psalm is the miserable cry of a nobody from nowhere.” ~Walter Brueggemann

Water

“In Book 5 of the Psalter, in particular, Yahweh is depicted as the God of the heavens” Dennis Tucker

Psalm 130:2 ESV

2 O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

The Psalm moves three times from LORD to Lord showing a movement from distance to personal.

Psalm 130:3 ESV

3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

‘awon (iniquities) = “the flood of wrong and its consequences that sweeps life along and from which there is no escape apart from a liberating, rescuing redemption” ~James Mays