The Beauty of the Broken Cry: Understanding David’s Lament

May 24, 2026 • Kern Preddie

The Gospel According to David

The Beauty of the Broken Cry:

Understanding David’s Lament

Kern Preddie

May 24, 2026

1. What is Biblical lament and what does it mean?

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them

crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I

have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up

out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the

home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Exodus 3:7-8

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be

healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

James 5:16

2. What do we lament - When idols fall.

“A gazelle lies slain on your heights, Israel. How the mighty have fallen! “Tell it not in

Gath, proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines be

glad, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice. “Mountains of Gilboa, may you

have neither dew nor rain, may no showers fall on your terraced fields. For there the

shield of the mighty was despised, the shield of Saul—no longer rubbed with oil.

2 Samuel 1:19-21

3. The necessity for lament – To God you matter. Your pain matters to

Him.

Record my misery; list my tears on your scroll—are they not in your record?

Psalm 56:8

Jesus wants the burdens you’ve been carrying and the pain you’ve been suppressing.