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Today we're in Psalms 41 through 45.

And Paul, where do we want to focus in our episode today? What psalms are we highlighting?

Yeah, today I want to sit with Psalms 42 and 43 specifically. And if you read closely today, you would see why I would treat them together.

Scholars kind of think that these were once one psalm. And the biggest reason for that is that there's a repeated refrain that we get in both 42 and 43, so we'll get into

that. So this is a lament psalm that really does not pull its punches. It's using all kinds of literary

devices to talk about just how sorrowful and really, I mean,

I think depressed is a good word for how the psalmist is feeling in this.

And it conveys that level of sadness.

I think all of us have at some point in our lives felt.

And so I think it's an encouragement, even just the fact that the writers of the Bible felt

the way that we feel sometimes and that God has something to say to us in the writers of the Bible felt the way that we feel sometimes,

and that God has something to say to us in the midst of that.

So the thing I want to point out, though, is that it doesn't just give us words to say,

but actually, I think, a structure even for lament when we find ourselves in a place like this.

And so I want to point out the fact that the psalmist doesn't just address God with his

sadness.

He also addresses his own soul with truth, which is kind of interesting.

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