“O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:”
Psalm 88, the darkest lament in the Psalter, opens: "O LORD, God of my salvation, when, at night, I cry out in your presence." The address to God as God of salvation is immediately complicated by the question "when will my cry be heard?" The nighttime context emphasizes darkness and isolation.
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Omar HassanNote1mo agoThe Prayer That Gets No Answer
This is the darkest psalm in the entire collection. The whole thing is one long cry for help with no moment of resolution. The psalmist cries out continually and gets nothing. His soul is full of trou...
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Elena PetrovaNote1mo agoMy Cry Comes Before You
Psalm 88 is the darkest psalm in the entire collection. It's a lament with no resolution. The psalmist is suffering, crying out to God, feeling abandoned, and at the end of the psalm there's no 'but t...
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