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"Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy."

— Psalm 130:1-2

The Hebrew word for depths means deep water, the kind you cannot stand up in. This is one of fifteen songs pilgrims sang walking up to Jerusalem, so people said it out loud on a road, together. The writer does not clean himself up first. He shouts from the bottom. The whole psalm is eight verses long and it ends on forgiveness and full redemption. The crying out comes first and the answer comes after.