“What we find in these psalms of lament, it is important to stress, is never
mere sadness. We find instead sadness before the face of God. For here there is never mere complaint brought
to God, rather than kept
from God. Here there is no victim mentality, even if the psalmist is a real victim of violence who requires vindication. Here there is wholly honest reckoning of pain
within the community of those who seek to be wholly human, as hard as that may be, wrestling with God, not apart from God.”
―
W. David O. Taylor,
Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life
