Psalms 130

1 Yahweh, I have a lot of troubles/many difficulties, so I call out to you.

A song for pilgrims going up to Jerusalem. Lord, I cry out to you from the depths of my pain.

2 Yahweh, hear me, while I call out to you [SYN] to be merciful to me!

Please listen to my cry, and pay attention to what I'm asking.

3 Yahweh, if you kept a record of the sins [that we have committed], not one [of us] [RHQ] would escape from being condemned [and punished]

Lord, if you kept a list of sins, who could escape being condemned?

4 But you forgive us, with the result that we greatly revere you.

But you are forgiving so that we might respect you.

5 Yahweh has said [that he would help/rescue me]; I trust what he said, and I wait eagerly for him to do that.

I'm waiting for the Lord, longingly waiting, for I trust in his word.

6 I wait for Yahweh [to help me] more than watchmen wait for the light to dawn; yes, I wait more eagerly than they do!

I long for the Lord to come, more than watchmen longing for the dawn to come, more than watchmen longing for the dawn to come.

7 You [my fellow] Israelis, confidently expect that Yahweh [will bless us]. [He will bless us] because he faithfully loves [us], and he is very willing to save/rescue [us].

Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for the Lord loves us with a trustworthy love and his salvation knows no limits.

8 And he will save us Israeli [people] from [being punished for] all the sins that [we] have committed.

He will save Israel from every sin.