My soul is troubled within me

therefore I will remember you.

Deep calls to deep in confusion

and all your waters sweep over me.

Yet by day God’s love assures me;

come night, a song leaves my lips,

a prayer to the God of my life.

I ask God, ‘Why have you forgotten me?’

Why should I walk like a mourner,

being taunted, ‘Where is your God?’

Why am I sunk in deep misery?

Why am I lost and distressed?

I shall put my hope in God,

in the One who is my deliverer.

_ Psalm of the Day from Iona Abbey Worship Book, revised edition.