me; the torrents of perdition assailed me” (18:4), “my body wasted away, … my strength was dried up” (32:3–4), my feet were stuck in “a miry bog” (40:2), “we went through fire and through water” (66:12), and so on. Essential to the description of the crisis is the psalmist’s report of asking God for help. In Psalm 30, the singer says both “I cried to you for help” (v. 2) and reports that “To you, O LORD, I cried, and to the LORD I made supplication” (v. 8). Psalm 107 is a more generic and longer