Psalm 130 doesn't tell you to wait. It's a man doing it, out loud, from the depths, asking God to hear him because he isn't sure he's being heard. This episode reads the psalm whole, shows how the prayer is built — the watchman who cannot make the morning come, the waiting that is for a word rather than an outcome, a psalm that ends while it's still dark — and ends with one thing said out loud tonight.

David wrote Psalm 13 with his enemy on top of him, and the psalm never tells us the trouble lifted. He asks how long four times before he asks for anything, and the first two are about God, not the enemy: forget, and hide your face. This episode reads the psalm whole, shows how the prayer is built — the silence named first, the request small, the turn that happens with nothing resolved — and ends with one thing said out loud tonight.

David wrote Psalm 143 while he was being hunted, living in dark places, his spirit failing. He doesn't ask to be told whether he heard right. He asks to be caused to hear, and to be shown which way to walk. This episode reads the psalm whole, shows how the prayer is built — every verb God's work, the asking that doesn't wait until he's qualified, the morning he asks for and doesn't get inside the psalm — and ends with one thing said out loud tonight.