Psalm 44

A national lament with no tidy answer. We heard what You did for our fathers, and we trusted You, but You've rejected us, sold us for nothing, and we hadn't forsaken You. It even says, "Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping?" Scripture includes faithful people accusing God of absence. Paul quotes verse 22 in Romans 8:36, three verses before he writes that nothing "will be able to separate us from the love of God."

"Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." (Psalm 44:22)