simply v. 1, is crucial to the evangelists’ understanding of Jesus’ identity and the meaning of his death. Allusions to the end of the psalm—alongside the confession of the centurion, the empty tomb narratives, and the witnesses to the resurrection—indicate that God does hear Jesus’ cry and vindicate him.52 Jesus’ cry of abandonment, when read as a form of divine lament, is a unique and unprecedented expression of loss: the Son’s separation from the Father. (Interestingly, the shock of this separation