Summary

Again, this is a verse filled with rhetorical questions. Do people know of God’s miracles in the realm of darkness? Do people know the Lord’s justice in the land of forgetfulness? The author is afraid that it might not be so, but he does not find peace in it. He must get rid of these choking questions. That is why he keeps calling them out to the Lord every day (see Psalm 88:9). That is also the only path left for us when we are in great need, when we stand at the borders of our life.

Especially in these moments, it is necessary to pay attention to the whole of the Scriptures. In fact, in the Psalms we already find glimmers of hope. Psalm 16:10–11 is promising here: For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption. You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore (see also Psalm 73:23–28, Isaiah 26:19, Daniel 12:2–3). We especially find hope in the words which Jesus once said to the Sadducees (who argued that there was no resurrection from the dead): “And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong” (Mark 12:26–27). These passages can give us hope and encourage us to continue calling on the Living God. This is exactly where Heman is an example for us.