seems endless, and pain is unbearable, the psalmist protests against the working of divine providence. He complains against God for being indifferent and inactive immeasurably long. Alongside the wrath of God, Luther takes very seriously his indifference. The sense that God has forsaken or abandoned us is more intolerable than the sense of his wrath. Luther wrote: “Then a horrible terror and, as it were, the beginning of damnation is felt, as is written in Ps. 30:7: ‘Thou didst hide Thy face, I was