Suffering & Lament
God gave His people permission to complain — and put it in the Bible.
Roughly a third of the Psalms are complaints. Whole books are grief. Scripture never tells hurting people to be quieter; it hands them language.
The thread
Job 3 · ancient
Job curses the day he was born
Psalm 13 · ~1000 BC
How long wilt thou forget me?
Lamentations 3 · ~586 BC
His mercies are new every morning
Matthew 26 · AD 30
Gethsemane — if it be possible
Romans 5 · ~AD 57
Tribulation works patience
Lessons