The need for lament

Psalm 13 Psalm 13 is a psalm of lament. Psalms of lament are more than a little uncomfortable to read.  Should the psalmist really be saying those things out loud? Should we even be reading this stuff that the psalmist shouldn’t have said out loud in the first place? I mean, this kind of Psalm made the final cut into the cannonized scripture, right? Surely they’re not as blasphemous as they ...

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