Lord, each moment I am mourning.
I’m crying around the clock.
Why?
Because you’ve abandoned me.
Like everyone else, you have left me.
I’m flat on my back. Both feet in the grave.
Lord, bring an end to this nightmare.
Darkness is my only friend, and you are my only hope.
When I went through a time of depression back in the mid 90’s this psalm became my favorite! “At last,” I thought in my depressed state of mind, “a psalm that begins dark and ends even darker.” I felt David was a true soul-mate at that moment and knew then that God really did understand what I was going through. Hope is knowing that God will make things better eventually. However, one can have hope, and still feel nothing but darkness. That, I believe, is the essence of Psalm 88.
Byron,
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve come to appreciate these lament Psalms more and more.
Chris
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