This psalm also is entitled “A Song of Degrees.” See the notes at
Introduction to Psalms 120:1. The author and the occasion on which it
was composed are unknown, as is also the reason why it was inclu...
Israel is suffering the punishment of its sins, and humbly the
Psalmist confesses that if Jehovah takes strict account of those sins,
Israel's case is desperate. But Jehovah has revealed Himself as a...
CXXX.
It is the soul of the people which here throws itself on the Divine
forgiveness, waiting for deliverance as one waiteth for the dawn.
Psalms 130:7, which are evidently taken up by the full choir...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 130
A SONG OF DEGREES. This psalm is by some thought to have been written
by David either when persecuted by Saul, and in great distress, and
fearful he should perish by him; or...
_A.M. 2946. B.C. 1058._
This Psalm, which relates not to any temporal concern, either
personal or public, but wholly to matters of a spiritual nature, is
reckoned one of the seven penitential Psalms,...