In the verses of this Psalm, David is lamenting…he is battling depression…and he is searching.  To the Believer, depression may seem as something only non-believers suffer through…but it’s not true.  Statistics show 18% of Americans have been or are currently depressed.  I myself went through a period of clinical depression years ago when a combination of debilitating emotions, negative thinking, and a sense of sadness overwhelmed me.  But what got me through the distress was the awe of God.  I clung to His Word as a drowning person would cling to a life-preserver thrown to them.  I would recite Scriptures out-loud that God is in me, (Colossians 1:27-28) God is with me, (Philippians 4:4-9)  and God is for me. (Romans 8:31) and slowly the hope in God returned… just as we find it did for David later in this Psalm. (Psalm 69:30-36)