Psalm 130 — Out of the depths
De profundis (Ps 129/130)
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice. O let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleading. If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, Lord, who would survive? But with you is found forgiveness, for this we revere you. My soul is waiting for the Lord, I count on His word. My soul is longing for the Lord more than the watchman for daybreak. Because with the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption, Israel indeed He will redeem from all its iniquity.
When this prayer is prayed
For the dead, on 2 November, at funerals, and from the bottom of a depression. The *De profundis*: the Church's prayer for those who cannot pray for themselves any more.