Why, LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me?

Psalm 88 - This was no doubt an exaggeration of a depressed spirit, and yet perhaps Heman may have been born under the cypress, and have been all his days afflicted with some chronic disease or bodily infirmity; there are holy men and women whose lives are a long apprenticeship to patience, and these deserve both our sympathy and our reverence,—our reverence we have ventured to say, for since the Savior became the acquaintance of grief, sorrow has become in believers' eyes.