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De profundis

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De profundis (dā prōfn`dēs) [Lat.,=from the depths], the opening words of Psalm 130, one of the penitential Psalms 1,) Solomon , Moses , and the sons of Korah . Many scholars believe that some of the Psalms originated in David's time and some even earlier. Most of them, however, took their present form between c.538 B.C. (when the Jews returned from Babylonian exile) and c.100 B.C.
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, in Jerome's Latin version (see Vulgate Vulgate (vŭl`gāt) [Lat. Vulgata editio=common edition], most ancient extant version of the whole Christian Bible .
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); also used as a title for the Psalm.


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One has become famous: Frederic Rzewski's De Profundis, using portions of Oscar Wilde's famous letter from prison.
No De profundis in the style of Gerald Manley Hopkins, "I did say yes / O at lightning and lashed rod.
Yet it's hard to imagine a more sincere or necessary statement than Wilde's own De Profundis.
 
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