one who wept at the grave of a friend, struggled with and submitted to God’s will, experienced fear and separation from his Father, thirsted for God’s presence, and commended his soul into God’s hands as he died. In the psalms as in the four gospels, lament is agony mingled with trust, petition paired with praise, complaint rooted in hope. Jesus’ prayers from the cross encompass the full range of lament, including humiliation, anguish at God’s apparent absence, longing for God’s presence, and trust