Psalm 130
A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship.
1 Yahweh, I have great troubles, so I call out to you.
2 Yahweh, hear me
while I call out to you to have mercy on me!
3 Yahweh, if you kept a record of the sins that we have committed,
not one of us would escape from being condemned and punished!
4 But you forgive us,
with the result that we have an awesome respect for you.
5 Yahweh has said that he would help me;
I trust what he said, and I wait eagerly for him to do that.
6 I wait for Yahweh to help me
more than watchmen wait for the morning to come;
yes, I wait more eagerly than they do!
7 You, my fellow Israelites, confidently expect that Yahweh will bless us.
He will bless us because he has mercy on us,
and he is very willing to save us.
8 It is he who will save us Israelite people from being punished for all the sins that we have committed.