In the New Testament, the question of God’s hiddenness remains a powerful motif in Jesus’ laments, especially through his quotation of Psalm 42 in the Garden of Gethsemane and Psalm 22 from the cross. Jesus’ ‘but’ or ‘yet’ (ἀλλά) in Gethsemane mirrors Israel’s waw adversative. Just as Israel’s laments presume God’s faithfulness, while still daring to challenge it, the question of God’s faithfulness to Israel and to the Son undergirds the laments of Jesus and the other laments of the New Testament.