The Psalmist is crying to the Lord out of the depths. As I have mentioned several times before, there are many Psalms where the psalmist calls out of his distress. No matter what our circumstances, we can always cry out to the Lord, and He does hear us.
The psalmists knows that he has no merit of his own. If the Lord kept a record of his sins he would have no hope. This is the situation with all of us. It is not that God ignores sins, rather He forgives them. This is completely different from overlooking them. Forgiveness faces up to full reality of sin, then does what is necessary, and clears the debt. This is what God did on the cross through His Son Jesus.
So we wait for the Lord and put our hope in His word. His word is full of promises of deliverance, but there is a waiting involved.
Finally he urges all of Israel to put her hope in the Lord, for with Him there is full redemption. We have been totally forgiven, but receiving the full benefits of that, the full redemption, is a process.
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