The Anxious Quest of the Sorrowful

The thirteenth Psalm is, first, the outcry of a heart that is overburdened with grief, chief of which is the feeling of forsakenness; second, the prayer for relief in the face of jeering enemies; and, third, the song of a grateful saint. In the first part of the Psalm, that speaks of forsakenness, we hear the cry: How long? four times. The first cry sounds strange. There is a great contradiction in it. Or so it seems. Attend to this: "How long, Jehovah, wilt Thou forget me perpetually? It...