"Incline Your Ear to my Cry" (Psalm 88)

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically disrupted the usual course of doing things by which the world and individuals are accustomed to and it continues to do so as many individuals and, five years on, sectors are still reeling from the multi-faceted effects of the pandemic. It is on this account that this contribution seeks to offer the role and relevance of lament when people and communities face various forms of crises. This contribution explores how the practice of lament according to Walter Brueggemann's theology can be understood, applied, and appropriated in difficult times like this as exemplified in Psalm 88, considered as the saddest psalm.