Psalm 79:1-9
Far from victorious or jubilant, the first half of Psalm 79 reads like a list of social media headlines and nightly news reports, viscerally true reports of the chaos we humans create for ourselves and the worry that we will never find our way out of the harm we’ve done to ourselves. We have enough of this in our daily life. Can’t scripture give us a bit of a break, a quiet respite from the chaos surrounding us?
But keep reading. The complaints and the laments lead us to the simplest but often most meaningful prayer: Help us.