(4) A realistic response to the suffering and warfare in this world. The cry of lament heard throughout these prayers has great relevance to our own troubled era and also to the individual believer who must engage in a continual warfare against Satan’s deception. At one level, the Psalter is a bloody book for a bloody world. But not only do the psalms reflect crisis, they also witness to God’s healing power. Here again, we are at a renewal point in the church. The good news for our brokenness is