This psalm relates not to any temporal concern, either personal or public, but it is wholly taken up with the affairs of the soul. It is reckoned one of the seven penitential psalms, which have sometimes been made use of by penitents, upon their admission into the church; and, in singing it, we are…

God’s Regard to His Church. A song of degrees. 1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. 2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.

Here, I. The psalmist engages himself to trust in God and to wait for him, Ps. 130:5–6. Observe, 1. His dependence upon God, expressed in a climax, it being a a song of degrees, or ascents: ” I wait for the Lord; from him I expect relief and comfort, believing it will come, longing till it does…