Tony Wright considers this cry from Psalm 119.34 as a possible response to natural disaster and human evil.

The undoubted ability of the psalmist's words to move the heart is matched by that of the visual image in the modern world, thanks to the extraordinary power of the media in our digital age.

Natural disaster

As Hurricane Katrina blows out and completes its destructive passage, new images of disaster abound: the half submerged disaster relief vehicle; the properties in various states of destruction; the many faces of grief and loss; the shocking, and yet familiar, reality of the rising death toll (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4203302.stm ).