Aching

More psalms for when you feel aching

• 69Save Me, O God
• 79Restore Us, LORD
• 88Darkest Lament
• 102A Prayer in Deep Distress
• 137By the Rivers of Babylon
• 42Longing for God
• 43Send Out Your Light
• 77Remembering God's Wonders
• 94God Is the Judge
• 22My God, My God, Why?
• 6A Prayer for Mercy
• 125Trust Like Mount Zion
• 41God Helps the Weak
• 23The LORD Is My ShepherdGod would jump over a million people just to protect you.

Aching sits in the Comfort psalms — 60 of the 150 in all. See every one.

Someone in the Bible felt this too

• Job, a Righteous ManBook of JobJob loses nearly everything and says so, out loud, at length. The Bible gives grief a whole book and does not hurry it.
• The Prodigal SonLuke 15:11–32Sitting among the pigs, working out how far he has come down. Sadness that is the beginning of turning round.