My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;I know the first verse of this Psalm from a song we sang all the time while I was growing up. I always took it as a Psalm of praise, of longing to worship before God. However, reading it now, I think I had the wrong idea.
When shall I come and appear before God?
This is a Psalm for a time of oppression. This is someone who isn't looking so much to worship before God, but to either be rescued from his affliction, or to be relieved of his life. He is hurting and being ridiculed, because God is not there. He wants God to change his circumstances, or else to die and be relieved of the burdens of his life.
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