De Profundis

De Profundis ('out of the depths'), the first words of the Vulgate version of the 129th psalm (A.V. 130th), which is one of the seven 'penitential psalms,' and forms a portion of the liturgy of the Catholic Church, and is sung when the bodies of the dead are committed to the grave. A tender melancholy pervades the psalm, which, however, brightens at the close under the conviction that with God there is 'plenteous redemption.'