course, if one does admit to them, one must neither accept them nor take any personal responsibility for them: one must blame one’s parents, sue one’s employer, pop a pill, or check into a clinic in order to have such dysfunctional emotions soothed and one’s self-image restored.… In the psalms, God has given the church a language which allows it to express even the deepest agonies of the human soul in the context of worship.3 So what do Christians sing when despondent, depressed, or discouraged?