psalmist, on his part, will then acclaim God in music (i.e., in temple worship), sing God’s praise, recite his righteous acts. In his inability to praise God, the mourner is like the dead, and indeed, mourning is closely associated with death and Sheol. Sheol is not only the place where the dead reside, it is the place where the lamenter feels himself to be—the place experienced while in a state of mourning or lamenting. Only when the lamenter is delivered from his trouble does his state of mourning