then they had better not be praying at all but putting this right. Then they can praise and pray. We have noted that another frequent feature of protest psalms is a profession of trust and hope in Yhwh despite the events that generate the protest. In a number of psalms this element is so prominent that they are more appropriately treated as trust psalms than as protest psalms. While the boundary between trust psalms and protest psalms is fuzzy, we might put in this trust category Pss. 4; 11; 16;
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