Spiritual Depression in the Psalms

“'As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, ‘Where is your God?’” And the taunt ‘Where is your God?’ implies that something else has gone wrong too, or they wouldn’t be saying, ‘Where is your God?’ It looks to them like he has been abandoned.” 

“’My tears have been my food day and night.’ So he is discouraged to the point of crying day and night. In verse 7 he says that it feels like drowning: 'All your breakers and your waves have gone over me.'” 

“In all of this, he is fighting for hope. ... Verse 5: ‘Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.’... Verse 11: ‘Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.’ He is not surrendering to the emotions of discouragement. He is fighting back.”  

“...it looks like God has forgotten him. It feels as if God has forgotten him. If God hasn’t forgotten him, why aren’t these enemies driven back and consumed? It would be good if all of us were so composed and careful in the expression of our discouragements that we never said anything amiss. But that is not the way we are. In the midst of the tumult of emotions, we are not careful with our words.”

[Job talked] ...”about ‘words for the wind.’ [Job 6:26] Job says to his critical friends, ‘Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?’ In other words, don’t jump on the words of a despairing man. Let it go. There will be ample time to discern the deeper convictions of the heart. Let the wind blow them away. They are words for the wind.” Spiritual D

Depression in the Psalms |  Psalm 42
Psalms: Thinking and Feeling with God, Part 2
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Psalms 31:1-7 (NIV)
1 In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness. 2 Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me. 3 Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me. 4 Free me from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge. 5 Into your hands I commit my spirit; redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth. 6 I hate those who cling to worthless idols; I trust in the LORD. 7 I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul. Hear, Read and Study more on Psalms 31:1-7

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Psalms 31:22 (NIV)
In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from your sight!" Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help. Hear, Read and Study more on Psalms 31:22

Psalms 31:9-10 (NIV)
9 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief. 10 My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak. Hear, Read and Study more on Psalms 31:9-10

Psalms 34:18 (NIV) The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Hear, Read and Study more on Psalms 34:18

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