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Also known as Psalm 129 (Septuagint)

one of the 15 Songs of Ascents in the Book of Psalms, numbered 130 in the Masoretic Text but 129 in the Septuagint and the Vulgate

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Other name
Psalm 129 (Vulgate) "De profundis"
Language
Hebrew (original)

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Psalm 130 is the 130th psalm of the Book of Psalms, one of the penitential psalms and one of 15 psalms that begin with the words "A song of ascents" (Shir Hama'alot). The first verse is a call to God in deep sorrow, from "out of the depths" or "out of the deep", as it is translated in the King James Version of the Bible and the Coverdale translation (used in the Book of Common Prayer), respectively. In Latin, it is known as De profundis.

In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible, and in the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 129.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Psalm 130” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.