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Category:  Lent ,  Seven Penitential Psalms   Tag:  confession ,  forgiveness ,  lent ,  penance ,  psalms ,  purgatory ,  sin   Week 6 | Psalm 130 [129] #letuspray   A Song of Ascents 130  Out of the depths I cry to thee, O  Lord ! 2  Lord, hear my voice! Let thy ears be attentive      to the voice of my supplications! 3  If thou, O  Lord , shouldst mark iniquities,      Lord, who could stand? 4  But there is forgiveness with thee,      that thou mayest be feared. 5  I wait for the  Lord , my soul waits,      and in his word I hope; 6  my soul waits for the  Lord      more than watchmen for the morning,      more than watchmen for the morning. 7  O Israel, hope in the  Lord !      For with the  Lord  there is steadfast love,      and with him is plenteous redemption. 8  And he will redeem Israel      from all his iniquities.

Category:  Lent ,  Seven Penitential Psalms   Tag:  confession ,  forgiveness ,  lent ,  penance ,  Pharisaism ,  psalms ,  sin   Week 5 | Psalm 102 [101] #letuspray   A prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the  Lord . 102  Hear my prayer, O  Lord ; let my cry come to thee! 2  Do not hide thy face from me      in the day of my distress! Incline thy ear to me;      answer me speedily in the day when I call! 3  For my days pass away like smoke,      and my bones burn like a furnace. 4  My heart is smitten like grass, and withered;      I forget to eat my bread. 5  Because of my loud groaning      my bones cleave to my flesh. 6  I am like a vulture of the wilderness,      like an owl of the waste places; 7  I lie awake,      I am like a lonely bird on the housetop. 8  All the day my enemies taunt me,      those who deride me use my name for a curse. 9  For I eat ashes like bread,      and mingle tears with my drink, 10  becaus

Category:  Lent ,  Seven Penitential Psalms   Tag:  confession ,  forgiveness ,  lent ,  penance ,  Pharisaism ,  psalms ,  sin   Week 4 | Psalm 51 [50] #letuspray   TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID, WHEN NATHAN THE PROPHET CAME TO HIM, AFTER HE HAD GONE IN TO BATHSHEBA. 51  Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love;      according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2  Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,      and cleanse me from my sin! 3  For I know my transgressions,      and my sin is ever before me. 4  Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,      and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence      and blameless in thy judgment. 5  Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,      and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6  Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being;      therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. 7  Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;      wash me, and I shall

Category:  Lent ,  Seven Penitential Psalms   Tag:  confession ,  forgiveness ,  lent ,  penance ,  psalms ,  sabbath ,  sin   Week 3 | Psalm 38 [37] #letuspray   A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering. 38  O  Lord , rebuke me not in thy anger,      nor chasten me in thy wrath! 2  For thy arrows have sunk into me,      and thy hand has come down on me. 3  There is no soundness in my flesh      because of thy indignation; there is no health in my bones      because of my sin. 4  For my iniquities have gone over my head;      they weigh like a burden too heavy for me. 5  My wounds grow foul and fester      because of my foolishness, 6  I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;      all the day I go about mourning. 7  For my loins are filled with burning,      and there is no soundness in my flesh. 8  I am utterly spent and crushed;      I groan because of the tumult of my heart. 9  Lord, all my longing is known to thee,      my sighing is not hidden from thee

Category:  Lent ,  Seven Penitential Psalms   Tag:  confession ,  forgiveness ,  lent ,  penance ,  psalms ,  sin ,  wisdom   Week 2 | Psalm 32 [31] #letuspray   The Joy of Forgiveness A Psalm of David. A Maskil. 32  Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,      whose sin is covered. 2  Blessed is the man to whom the  Lord  imputes no iniquity,      and in whose spirit there is no deceit. 3  When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away      through my groaning all day long. 4  For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me;      my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.  Selah 5  I acknowledged my sin to thee,      and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my trangressions to the  Lord ”;      then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin.  Selah 6  Therefore let every one who is godly      offer prayer to thee; at a time of distress, in the rush of great waters,      they shall not reach him. 7  Thou art a hiding place for me,