Psalm 106

The companion to 105, and this time it's confession: "We have sinned like our fathers." They forgot God at the sea, craved in the desert, made the golden calf ("they exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox"), and sacrificed their own children. It's brutally honest. And yet "nevertheless He heard their cry," and relented out of abundant chesed. Book Four ends with "Amen! Hallelujah!" over a story of repeated failure met by mercy.

"Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress." (Psalm 106:44)