Af diuupsen nödh ropar iach til tich
The Cry from the Depths
The psalmist acknowledges human inability to stand before God's judgment and pleads for mercy.
Out of deepest distress I cry to you. O God, hear my complaint; turn your merciful ears toward me, and may my voice please you. For if you intend to count every sin and look closely at what is right, who could then stand before you? So now, we have no other way to be freed from sin unless you show us grace out of your own goodwill. No one on earth can truly do what is good; everyone needs God's grace.
Anchored in the Word
The believer shifts from despair to trust, finding assurance in God's promise and the sufficiency of His grace.
I will hold fast to the sure foundation of God’s word and never put my trust in myself. I will call on God’s grace. God alone has the power to help, so I will trust in him; it will go well with me. Even if God should test me and not send help at once, my heart will still rest firmly in him through faith. He may seem stern, but he is gracious, and he helps me at the right time, just as he has promised me. Even though my sin is very great, God’s grace is greater still. He helps me if I believe it and delivers me from danger. I gladly thank him, for he has forgiven my sin. To him be praise and honor.
Read the original Latin
AF diuupsen nödh ropar iach til tich/ o gud tu hör mijn claghe/ tijn milda öron wendt till mich/ mijn röst lät tich behagha/ ty om tu synd grant rekna wil/ och hwad rett är see nogha til/ hoo kan tå for tich bliffua?
Så är oss nuu ey annor rådh/ at synden frå oss skilia/ vtan at tu gör med oss nådh/ aff tinom goda wilia/ på iorden finnes ingen man/ som thet got är rett göra kan/ gudz nådh hwar man behöffuer.
Ty wil iach til then fasta grund/ som är gudz ord mich halla/ och på mich trösta ingelund/ gudz nådh iach wil åkalla/ gud är alleen som hielp formå/ ty wil iach honom trösta på/ thet skal mich wel bekomma
Om gud än wille pröffua mich/ och hielpen ey strax senda/ til honom scal doch stadelig/ hiertat med tronne lenda/ han synes gröm och är doch blijd/ och hielper mich j rettom tijd som han mich loffuat haffuer
Aän tå mijn synd är ganszka stor/ doch är storre gudz nåde/ han hielper mich om iach thet troor/ och lossar vtaff wåda/ iach tackar honom gladelig/ som mijn synd haffuer förlåtit mich/ honom skee prijs och ära
Early Swedish Hymns companion
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