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Out of the Depths
A psalm for difficult times scored for SATB choir and piano
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You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.This setting of Psalm 130 ("Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord") was written in May 2020 as a response to the covid-19 lockdown crisis. It is a prayer for help in the midst of difficulty and sin, waiting for God with hope in his compassion and forgiveness. Its tempo marking of "soulful, but rhythmic" highlights the character of the weary, bluesey theme in B flat minor and its falling chromatic accompaniment. However, there are signs of hope throughout the setting, and the last verse mixes its principal key of G major with the original rise and fall of the minor third interval (G to B flat). Hope is, after all, "sure and certain", yet it is a trust in a God who is ultimately unseen and unknownable.
Psalm 130:
Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Lord, Lord, hear my voice O let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
If you, O Lord, should mark our iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared.
I wait for the Lord, I wait for the Lord. My soul waits, and in his word I hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.
O Israel, hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is steadfast love and great power to redeem. The Lord will redeem you, O Israel, from all your iniquities.
