Psalms 130:1-2

6 songs meet this passage

• “Calls from the dark”

  Swim in the Light · Kid Cudi

  resonates with Psalms 130:1-2

  Crying out from a low, dark place while still hoping to be heard mirrors the psalmist's posture of lament reaching toward help.

• “With hands held high into a sky so blue”

  Hands Held High · LINKIN PARK

  resonates with Psalms 130:1-2

  The raised-hands image reads like a cry from the depths, an appeal upward even without clear resolution, much like the psalmist's cry out of the depths.

• Abracadabra · Lady Gaga

  resonates with Psalms 130:1-2

  The buried cry in the bridge, 'save me from this empty fight,' faintly echoes the psalmist calling out from a place of genuine desperation. The song has that ache even if it reaches the wrong direction with it.

• “In desperation, I turned to heaven”

  Living Hope · Phil Wickham

  resonates with Psalms 130:1-2

  The cry from the depths to God mirrors this psalm's posture of desperate appeal toward heaven.

• White Man'z World · Makaveli

  resonates with Psalms 130:1-2

  A cry from the depths for help, much like the psalmist's cry out of distress, even while still entangled in the very violence he's asking to survive.

• “If You're still there, Lord spare me”

  Need a Favor · Jelly Roll

  resonates with Psalms 130:1-4

  The cry 'out of the depths' matches this song's posture: desperate, unsure, yet still calling out for mercy.

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