The codification of these prayers has come to be called the Book of Psalms. Due to David’s work on the Book of Psalms and their continual use within the Jewish and Christian communities ...

Psalm 22 is a psalm of lament ... Elizabeth Felicetti is rector of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, and author of Unexpected Abundance: The Fruitful Lives of Women without Children.

The album’s final movement, “Wait,” ends with a conversation between Simon—like David, feeling his age and seeing the end—asking for more time in a lament worthy of the Psalms that ...