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 troubles, he's like a man lying dead already, and God doesn't seem to notice.
What I find both honest and terrible is that the psalm ends without resolution. There's no moment where he suddenly feels better or remembers God's faithfulness. He just ends the same way he started: crying and getting no response. It's one of the only psalms that ends in darkness.
Yet the fact that this psalm exists in Scripture at all tells us something crucial. Your prayers don't have to be answered immediately for them to matter. Your pain doesn't have to make sense or lead to growth for it to be worth bringing to God. Sometimes you cry into the void and the void doesn't answer, and that cry is still sacred. It still counts. God listens to prayers that never get answered the way we hoped.
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