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Psalms 130:1

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.

KJV

Canticum graduum David. Domine, non est exaltatum cor meum, neque elati sunt oculi mei, neque ambulavi in magnis, neque in mirabilibus super me.

Vulgate

ᾨδὴ τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν· τῷ Δαυείδ. Κύριε, οὐχ ὑψώθη μου ἡ καρδία, οὐδὲ ἐμετεωρίσθησαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου· οὐδὲ ἐπορεύθην ἐν μεγάλοις οὐδὲ ἐν θαυμασίοις ὑπὲρ ἐμέ,

LXX

Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah.

ASV

שִׁ֥יר הַֽ/מַּעֲל֑וֹת מִ/מַּעֲמַקִּ֖ים קְרָאתִ֣י/ךָ יְהוָֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יִּקְרָ֥א
yqr'
verb · 737×
מַֽעֲמַקֵּי
m'mqy
noun · 5×
מַּ֫עֲל֥וֹת
m'lvt
noun · 50×
שִׁ֥יר
shyr
noun · 91×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2559"Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God."2 But when we pray, do we speak from the height of our pride and will, or "out of the depths" of a humble and contrite heart?3 He who humbles himself will be exalted;4 humility is the foundation of prayer, Only when we humbly acknowledge that "we do not know how to pray as we ought,…

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 22:17 — He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
  • Dan 4:34 — And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever,
  • Gen 37:24 — And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
  • Heb 5:7 — Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
  • Jonah 2:1 — Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,
  • Jonah 2:2 — And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
  • Lam 3:53 — They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
  • Luke 22:44 — And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
  • Ps 3:4 — I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
  • Ps 18:4 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
  • Ps 18:6 — In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
  • Ps 18:16 — He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
  • Ps 25:16 — Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
  • Ps 30:8 — I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
  • Ps 40:2 — He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
  • Ps 42:7 — Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
  • Ps 64:1 — Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
  • Ps 69:1 — Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
  • Ps 69:14 — Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
  • Ps 71:20 — Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
  • Ps 77:2 — In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
  • Ps 88:6 — Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
  • Ps 102:1 — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
  • Ps 116:3 — The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Ps 118:5 — I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
  • Ps 120:1 — In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
  • Ps 121:1 — I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
  • Ps 122:1 — I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
  • Ps 122:1 — I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
  • Ps 123:1 — Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
  • Ps 123:1 — Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.
  • Ps 124:1 — If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
  • Ps 124:1 — If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
  • Ps 125:1 — They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
  • Ps 127:1 — Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
  • Ps 128:1 — Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
  • Ps 129:1 — Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:
  • Ps 132:1 — Lord, remember David, and all his afflictions:
  • Song 3:1 — By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.