The psalmist must not have read Isaiah who lays the blame
for broken walls on the “pleasant planting” that produced sour grapes. There
are times when we can clearly identify the cause and effect of choices made or
delayed but there are just as many times when “Why, O Lord?” has no obvious
answer. We cannot endure for very long with “Why, O Lord?” and so when the walls
of our security have been broken down and the pleasant planting of our lives
ravaged by calamity we cry aloud with the psalmist. “Restore us, God Almighty!”
“Return to us, God Almighty!” “Look down from heaven and see!” Which is to say even
when are no satisfactory answers to “why?” we trust the Lord still tends the
vine of our lives.
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