Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Problems with Pain
2 The Hermeneutics of Pain
3 Pain and the Psalms, Beyond the Medicine Cabinet
4 On Whose Account, This Pain and Its Relief? (Psalm 69)
5 From Justified Pain to Self-Justification (Psalm 38)
6 Finally Darkness (Psalm 88)
7 Shared Treasure from a Lonely Journey (Psalm 22)
8 Moving Pain out of the Center (Psalm 6)
9 Meanwhile the World Goes On (Psalm 102)
Conclusion
Psalms Translations
Notes
Works Cited
Index